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Hi, Chaps
Spent the weekend in the garage making my cherry box.
I have had the idea for a while and the wood for even longer!
The wood; it is English cherry, quarter sawn and very nice looking.
Ripped on the band saw and hand planed.
Some old worm holes in the sapwood.
The parts were cross cut and shot to length with my Record No4 ½ stay set
I stood them up on the bench to see how it looked.
I grooved the sides for the base on the router table, with stopped groves in the sides.
I wanted to connect it together a little differently, with brass pins made from brazing rod.
I cut the rod to 20mm long lengths then clamped them in the drill press chuck, and with a file rounded one end and polished it with a Scotch Brite pad.
I clamped the sides to a length of 4x4 and with a few more lengths of 4x4 on the drill press as spacers I drilled the holes for the pins.
I had to incorporate a dovetail in somewhere and it needed a handle to open the lid.
So from some rosewood I made a handle, cut out on the band saw and shaped with a rasp, files and a scraper.
I cut a recess in the underside of the lid with chisels and router plane, glued it in and plained it flush with my home made shoulder plane.
I cut arches on the bottom of all the sides with the band saw and smoothed them with a spoke shave.
Made a bottom from the thin part of the rip sawn cherry, chamfering the edges to fit the groves, then smoothed all the arises with plane, scraper etc.
I glued and pinned the sides together leaving the base loose.
Here are a couple of bad pictures of the finished box the pins projection was set by using two washers as a depth stop.
A couple of washers are used to centre the lid on its pivot pins.
The finish is two coats of Danish Oil rubbed down with a Scotch Brite pad then a couple of coats of wax.
No sandpaper was harmed in the construction, every surface was planed or scraped.
I will do some better pictures at the weekend in daylight.
Pete
Spent the weekend in the garage making my cherry box.
I have had the idea for a while and the wood for even longer!
The wood; it is English cherry, quarter sawn and very nice looking.
Ripped on the band saw and hand planed.
Some old worm holes in the sapwood.
The parts were cross cut and shot to length with my Record No4 ½ stay set
I stood them up on the bench to see how it looked.
I grooved the sides for the base on the router table, with stopped groves in the sides.
I wanted to connect it together a little differently, with brass pins made from brazing rod.
I cut the rod to 20mm long lengths then clamped them in the drill press chuck, and with a file rounded one end and polished it with a Scotch Brite pad.
I clamped the sides to a length of 4x4 and with a few more lengths of 4x4 on the drill press as spacers I drilled the holes for the pins.
I had to incorporate a dovetail in somewhere and it needed a handle to open the lid.
So from some rosewood I made a handle, cut out on the band saw and shaped with a rasp, files and a scraper.
I cut a recess in the underside of the lid with chisels and router plane, glued it in and plained it flush with my home made shoulder plane.
I cut arches on the bottom of all the sides with the band saw and smoothed them with a spoke shave.
Made a bottom from the thin part of the rip sawn cherry, chamfering the edges to fit the groves, then smoothed all the arises with plane, scraper etc.
I glued and pinned the sides together leaving the base loose.
Here are a couple of bad pictures of the finished box the pins projection was set by using two washers as a depth stop.
A couple of washers are used to centre the lid on its pivot pins.
The finish is two coats of Danish Oil rubbed down with a Scotch Brite pad then a couple of coats of wax.
No sandpaper was harmed in the construction, every surface was planed or scraped.
I will do some better pictures at the weekend in daylight.
Pete
I wish I could get another tree of cherry for £100, I still have some too. If you run out let me know 
