Like this idea! Would you please elaborate on your comment: Use caution when choosing map & finish…. Chuck
Box pictures-everyones!
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This is a very cool idea. Especially with a shallow box so one can see the bottom easily. Make a great business card holder, check/tip boxes for restaurants, place to put keys and wallet, uses in which you don't completely fill the box all the time. I'd say they're just as detailed as the ones I made Jim, just as much time and effort put in.
Chuck, These maps are travel maps so they have printing on both sides. Due to the thinness of the paper some finishes will allow the back side to show through to the front which you don’t want. My bottoms are 1/8 baltic birch ply with maps on both sides. I glue them with spray on adhesive to prevent a liquid glue from doing the same thing. ( Ok ask me how I know) Experiment with some to make sure. A decoupage surface might even be a good idea.
photo of bottom
photo of bottom
Cool idea, but I think the inside of the lid would be better. you wouldn't have to unload it to see the map. ............ Nubsh
An excellent idea. Made a few like that as well. But then you have to make a lid for the box
Opps, didn't know it didn't have a lid. Make some more. ............. Nubs
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Someone asked for picture of walnut box, old man cannot remember who. Had son take pictures. I will get pics of oak one
Beautiful.
Immaculate!
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I can see why he took the walnut. Now let's see the oak one.
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Thanks, super nice tool chests.
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They were fun build. Straight grained white oak is nice to work with. So is walnut. I love M&T joinery. Small or large.
I think the walnut was too gorgeous for me. I love building stuff for shop but then it gets used and abused. Joe loves his, keeps it in his study. I knew he would pick it.
I have built a couple jewelry boxes for my wife and they wound up being tool chest for her and a mani/Pedi box.
I am not proud of the craft, but I am proud of the timber. This is albizia julibrissin (persian silk tree) sanded to #3000 and finished with teak oil.
From a 4½" log you can make a 3½" pencil holder :)
From a 4½" log you can make a 3½" pencil holder :)
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Sorta looks like tame koa. Cool functional box.
Yet another beautiful wood species that I’ve not seen before!
That's beautiful wood - love the contrasting grain stripes. It'd be easy enough to glue two of those boards together and you'd have plenty to make a good size box. Just plain one edge on each board so you get a true flush fit; center a saw kerf down the length of each; cut a long spline as long as the boards (or several shorter pieces work just as well); glue the splines in and clamp the boards together. Might need a little planing or sanding to flush the surfaces but you'd have boards 7-8 inches wide.
And that's some gorgeous koa Mike.
And that's some gorgeous koa Mike.
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I have videos of a couple bigger boards i had. Have not figured out videos here