Box made from bubinga

Another box. There should be a twelve-step program. This one measures 318 mm x 171 mm x 102 mm. Hand cut dovetails. Brusso hinges. Gaboon ebony lift. Faux suede interior. Finish is oil and wax.

This one gave me some problems with the hinges. Knowing the timber was hard and heavy, I took special care to drill the screw holes oversize and ran a steel screw down them lubricated with a little bees wax. First brass screw I tried to drive snapped off. :o I had to drill small holes around it to extract it. To repair that disaster, I drilled a 6 mm hole where the original had been and glued a piece of dowel in place. Then I decided to drill all the screw holes oversize and insert dowels. The dowels are made from birch and therefore present no problems when driving the soft screws. I think this may become a standard procedure when dealing with the harder exotics.

Hope you all like the box.

Very nice looking box.

Magnificent.
Very nicely executed
It's a very striking timber

I share your pain with your brass screw incedent!
Like you I drive a steel screw first.
I take the hinge off and return the screw (steel) slightly deeper. This can (CAN :U) give a bit more security from brass breakage

I like boxes and your dowel based solution to the brass screw in hard timbers conundrum. Best of all you can use the dowel jig for perfect fitment.

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Originally Posted by AnthonySeiver

I like boxes and your dowel based solution to the brass screw in hard timbers conundrum. Best of all you can use the dowel jig for perfect fitment.

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Well, since I already had the pilot holes drilled for the screws, I just used those pilot holes as the guide for the dowels. Basically freehanded them on my drill press. Let the 6mm drill bit find its center. The real tragedy was that the broken screw happened as the box was nearly completed. I was facing a lot of lost work. Saw some short lengths of birch dowel rod at a local hardware store and an idea was born. I really didn't have much to lose at that point.

Took the box out yesterday as the sun was shining. The indoor photos really washed out the timber. Looks much better in natural light.




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