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Rocking RP said:
Three cherry boxes.

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Those are beauties Roger. The top two would have been great entries in the mixed flat/turned challenge. I especially like the way you replicated the rectangle shape 3 times in the lid on the bottom box. The two taller boxes remind me of the tobacco tins my grandpa used to keep by his chair. He smoked a pipe.
 
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DLJeffs said:
Those are beauties Roger. The top two would have been great entries in the mixed flat/turned challenge. I especially like the way you replicated the rectangle shape 3 times in the lid on the bottom box. The two taller boxes remind me of the tobacco tins my grandpa used to keep by his chair. He smoked a pipe.
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My gramps smoked Velvet. I can still smell it when I think about it.
 
DLJeffs said:
Grandpa liked Prince Albert if I remember correctly. But I recall the Velvet cans around too.
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Dad did the same. We had hundreds of those cans as kids. Remember the day my big brother dumstered 3 garbage bags of PA cans back around 1987.
 
DLJeffs said:
Finished the chrysanthemum box. Sides and lid panel wavy red oak from Rob ( @rob3232 ); corners and lid frame cherry; lid accent chrysanthemum cookie from Byron ( @Byron Barker ). Minwax wipe-on poly satin buffed out and a coat of Minwax paste wax.
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The new challenge for me was the corner posts and lid shape. I cut a 9 inch long piece of cherry about a half inch wider than the box sides. Then cut the cove in this piece. Then cut a shallow kerf in the wider edge to make the legs. Then cut 1 inch slices off this board and cut rabbets in the back precisely to fit the box sides. Cut the box sides to length and glued them into the corner post rabbets. Then cut 45 degree miters into the cherry corner posts. For the lid I first inlaid the chrysanthemum cookie into the oak. Then after the box was glued up, cut the panel to size and made the cherry frame. Then I cut the lid so it fit properly inside the box, then traced the box shape on the bottom of the lid and cut away the sides of the frame to match the corner post shape. And last cut shallow kerfs in the top edge of the posts so it looks the same as the kerfs in the legs. Came out pretty well in my opinion. Not sure it was worth the extra time. With all those little edges and faces, it took forever to sand and finish.
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Wow great design Doug, brilliant use of the slice as a medallion!
 
Thanks Barry. That chrysanthemum is cool. I'm trying to think how to make an entire lid from multiple slices maybe cast with epoxy to fill the gaps.
 
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