925 posts in 438 days Location: Hills of Southern Indiana I really enjoy making boxes. The design phase is what I like the best when I'm working with my hands in wood. Building houses and furniture takes months or even years to finish; however, you can dream up and create another box every few days. In the past two or three years I have crafted over a hundred boxes and sold them mostly through local art galleries, no two boxes are exactly alike. Mostly, I use recycled materials. As I craft boxes slowly and one at a time, shapes, sizes, methods of work, materials, uses and designs keep evolving. It is wonderful play, and sales help support my tool habit. It seems there is a fine line between woodworking and tool collecting. Sometimes I tell the wood what it wants to be and sometimes the wood tells me what it wants to be. So far the wood and I are both comfortable with this arrangement. The joy of working with fine wood and getting to peer into the souls of ancient trees never grows old for me. Trees are one of nature's greatest feats.
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Max
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#1 posted 438 days ago
Glad to see that you have made LumberJocks a part of your Woodworking experience… Welcome
-- Max "Desperado", Salt Lake City, UT
a1Jim
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#2 posted 438 days ago
Welcome to Ljs a world wide community were there are great people,super projects and great woodworkers.Enjoy
-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/
SnowyRiver
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#3 posted 438 days ago
Welcome aboard. Nice that you could join us on Lumberjocks.
-- Wayne - Plymouth MN
surfin2
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#4 posted 438 days ago
Welcome To LumberJocks.
Good Luck…
-- Rick
Roger
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#5 posted 397 days ago
Look forward to seeing more of your very awesome boxes. Keep makin dust. Work/play safe
-- Roger from KY. Work/Play/Travel Safe. Kentuk55@bellsouth.net
jacob34
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#6 posted 371 days ago
I hope after practice my boxes look half as good as yours. My wife is from Indiana as well little north of you though.
-- two men walk into a bar the third one ducks, which are you??
woodshaver
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#7 posted 370 days ago
Wellcome to Lumberjock’s! Hope to see more of your interesting boxes!
-- Tony C , My high school shop teacher said "You can do it"... Now I can't stop!
SgtSnafu
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#8 posted 186 days ago
Hey – Welcome to Lumberjocks ! Lots of great ideas, info, inspiration, and support here (as many will tell ya – the site is quite addictive).. Enjoy…
—Scotty – aka… SgtSnafu – Randleman NC
-- Scotty - aka... SgtSnafu - Randleman NC
Chad256
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#9 posted 4 days ago
You have created some of the best boxes I have ever seen. That gives me lots of inspiration. They are all beautiful!
-- -- Chad -- North Alabama Woodworker
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