This is the second box I have made.
It is made of quartersawn oak, with a walnut inlay in the lid and a cedar base.
It is about 10 cm high and roughly A4 sized.
It was finished with three coats of Danish oil and then waxed.
I wish I had had more time to do the fabulous wood full justice. I gave myself less than a week as it was a gift for this weekend.
The last two photos show how differently the box looks in varied lighting.
Learning points from this project were give yourself enough time to sort out your cock ups as you are going to make them. I had fun with the mitres on my cheap mitre saw, my TS 200 helped me out big time, I messed up the routing of the base as I cut wide and shallow and not narrow and deep because I had misjudged the orientation on my router table. If I had had the time I would have completely replaced that side. Instead I did a fairly crude patch up.
Having said all that I think not over complicating the design worked.
It is made of quartersawn oak, with a walnut inlay in the lid and a cedar base.
It is about 10 cm high and roughly A4 sized.
It was finished with three coats of Danish oil and then waxed.
I wish I had had more time to do the fabulous wood full justice. I gave myself less than a week as it was a gift for this weekend.
The last two photos show how differently the box looks in varied lighting.
Learning points from this project were give yourself enough time to sort out your cock ups as you are going to make them. I had fun with the mitres on my cheap mitre saw, my TS 200 helped me out big time, I messed up the routing of the base as I cut wide and shallow and not narrow and deep because I had misjudged the orientation on my router table. If I had had the time I would have completely replaced that side. Instead I did a fairly crude patch up.
Having said all that I think not over complicating the design worked.
