Incense box

Very nice. Thanks for sharing.

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

Great choice of woods and nice design.

-- Jesus is Lord!

beautiful!!

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Looks nice. With that mix of woods, what does it smell like? ;)

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It smells like Pratt & Lambert #38. LOL.

Great box.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

Karson, that sounds like a replacement song for the LJ soundtrack thread. I didn’t know you were a Nirvana fan…

It smells of cedar, as the interior is only burnished with P600 grit and no finish.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

Sweet smelling art. And the incense box looks real good too.

-- Carpe Lignum - Seize The Wood,

Nice stuff. I like projects with long dimensions and subtle curves. How does Wenge work? I found out today that my local Rockler store is having a big sale on 3 inch thick boards of Wenge. I like how dark it is.

-- Jeff, St. Paul, MN

I like the clean lines, and those maple strips, those are not shims but a nice surprise when you open the box!

-- Jeff, West Linn, OR, http://www.dogwood-design.com

Do you turn pens? That box could be modified into a gorgeous presentation box for a pen & pencil set. Excellent work!

-- Jeff, Santa Fe

Jeff-
I do turn pens, and will post some pen and boxes when I gather up a lot of small turnings for a posted project. This project is a adaptation of Doug Stowe’s Bracelet box from Creating Beautiful Boxes with Inlay Techniques, which I highly recommend. My pen boxes are essentially modified from the design. After reading the Intellectual Property topic, http://lumberjocks.com/topics/213, I want to be careful to tip my hat to Mr Stowe.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

Nice work! I like the wood and “the story of the shims”!

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Douglas, I’m not sure whether I said this to you before, but I just love small wooden boxes. This one is real special. I like the curved to, something I’ll have to try.

Very nice work.

-- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.hilsbiblechurch.org/

not sure how I missed this one. it is beautiful box. the curved top looks like a challenge

-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

Routing the channel was a bit hairy. Doug Stowe’s book Creating Beautiful Boxes with Inlay Techniques tells how using thin boards at the infeed and outfeed areas of the router table to cradle the work as you waste the ground for the inlay on a convex workpiece. It’s pretty much a fly by the seat of your pants affair. The rest was using the offcut from the box top as a curved glue caul.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

It’s a very nice box Doug. Has the aroma of Pratt & Lambert #38 disapated?

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

She’s smelling of sweet Spanish Cedar. Still taking up real estate in the dining room, so SWMBO must still like it.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

Douglas, this is a nice box! I think I missed it the first time by!

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

Dekker, who is planning to make one of these asked me to document the method used to cut the curve for the top of the box. This crude jig is how it was done.

Long auxiliary table for the band saw. Hole in the table to clamp to bandsaw table. Not on this shot, but unfortunately necessary with this Delta Taiwanese 14˝ is an outrigger leg which keeps the table from tilting. No way does cranking down on the knob keep the table steady. I think I used a c-clamp through the hole when I cut this the first time but it’s been three or four years… Ain’t incumbent senility grand. There is a pin which the swing arm pivots through. I know that there is some ShopNotes type jig which allows varied tailoring of the radius of the circle that one wishes to cut, this is the Capt. Chaos version (thanks LOML, for the nick name. If the shoes fits, better lace ‘em up and keep on truckin’). There are at least several holes bored through the swing arm for tailoring the arc to task.

There is a ledge that the workpiece rides on as it passes through the blade. Work is held in place with De-Sta-Co clamps.

another view at the business end of the blade.

The rest of construction is per the Bracelet Box in Doug Stowe’s aforementioned book.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

Functionally wonderful piece of woodworking.

-- Carpe Lignum - Seize The Wood,

Thanks Douglas! Very helpful!

-- Dekker - http://www.WoodworkDetails.com/Blog/MNagy/

What a beautiful box and a great jig! I really like the curved top.

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