paulrbarnard
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Just finished another Christmas present. This one has a back story... When the first lockdown started one of my daughters was living in a shared house in a very small bedroom. She decided to move back in with us for the duration. While here she decided she wanted to have a go at some woodworking to pass the time. I pointed her at a Paul Sellars video on YouTube where he makes a small desk organiser box. My workshop is a hand tools only situation and she had not anticipated the effort involved. Anyway she mad a start with dimensioning of the timber and go the pieces for the case roughed out.
At this point she developed a blister and decided this was going to be a bit of a big project she abandoned it and made an Apple Watch charging stand, like the ones I posted earlier. She did a great job on that but of course it means I couldn't give her one of those for Christmas.
I decided I would build the organiser box for her. I had given my daughter a panel of recovered pine to play with but I figured I would break out my last board of cherry for the project. Everything was done with hand tools, including thicknessing the boards. These are the first dovetails I have cut since I left Canada 16 years ago and I literally just went for it so pleasantly pleased with the outcome. The box is far from perfect but it looks nice and I'm sure my daughter is going to love it. The drawer pull is a bit of maple and the drawer bottom and divider are pine. It is finished with Liberon finishing oil and then wax.
I decided I would build the organiser box for her. I had given my daughter a panel of recovered pine to play with but I figured I would break out my last board of cherry for the project. Everything was done with hand tools, including thicknessing the boards. These are the first dovetails I have cut since I left Canada 16 years ago and I literally just went for it so pleasantly pleased with the outcome. The box is far from perfect but it looks nice and I'm sure my daughter is going to love it. The drawer pull is a bit of maple and the drawer bottom and divider are pine. It is finished with Liberon finishing oil and then wax.