Project Information
This box starts off with a glue up block made up of Alder, the wrapped with Mesquite, I used Wenge for the splines, drawer pulls and top tray, it has all of my special features hidden drawer and the hidden compartment behind a false bottom door, this mesquite used in this project is part of some mesquite I had gotten from a neighboring farm land, it was already dead and dried when I milled it on my bandsaw, this box measures 11 3/4" x 6" x 7 1/4" has two large drawers, a small lift out tray that acts as a key to open the top false bottom door that lies under the top wenge tray and a hidden drawer, it is finished in a single coat of tung oil, the edge grain of the drawers and all other edge grain I added a single coat of non waxes shellac and then two coats of my own mix satin wipe-on-poly and a final rub down with paste wax.
A little tid bit about this build, when I was cutting the splines, I forgot to check both front corners where the cuts would land and if you notice on the small drawer top right corner, I managed to fix that minor detail with gluing the spline on the top edge of the drawer.
Thanks for looking
A little tid bit about this build, when I was cutting the splines, I forgot to check both front corners where the cuts would land and if you notice on the small drawer top right corner, I managed to fix that minor detail with gluing the spline on the top edge of the drawer.
Thanks for looking