My first box

[Samfire]

I mentioned on here a few weeks ago when I got my first scroll saw that my intentions were to use it to make boxes so that I could decorate them with my pyrography iron.
After doing several cut out exercises from a book; fish, dogs, dragons and that sort of stuff I decided to jump in at the deep end and design my own box.
Here are the results.

I am happy with the fretwork and the pyrography, but the joints on the box were an absolute failure. I thought it would be easy to do some mitre joints on my sander but that was a big mistake. I disguised them pretty well, but I'm hoping for better results next time when I shall be having a go at box joints before reaching my peak with a set of dovetails
Meanwhile, I'll take some comfort in the fact that Rome wasn't built in a day.

 

[stevebuk]

i think thats really good, not only your own design but a novice too, well done its great.

 

[bassethound]

I like it, it looks very good and looks quite tricky to me

 

[ChrisR]

Nice work, looks good . =D>


Take care.

Chris R.

 

[martinka]

Nice looking box. Looks like you will be turning out some really good stuff in a relatively short time.

 

[Samfire]

Thanks for your kind comments. It's a shame you can't see the joints I messed up because you would have had a good laugh; they looked like I'd done them with an axe.

 

[nadnerb]

Nice work Samfire, I like the design, looks almost asian.
Regards
Brendan