Australian Rosewood / Wood Hinged Box

I absolutely love lookin at your boxes

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Don -

I always enjoy your boxes! I like the joinery and the hinges. You have the most interesting wood species!

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Beautiful Don…what are the overall dimensions?

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another beautiful box by DON, too bad we couldnt have hooked up for a coffee or something while you were in the neighborhood, oh well guess I’ll have to go donw under

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Thanks for the kind words.

Bob, the width is 9”, depth 5.5” and hight 3.25”.

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

Beautiful box. That Amboyna Burl panel is something special!

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

Very nice looking box Don. I like your choice of joints. You could almost enter this in the joinery competition.

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welcome home Don… I don’t think I said that, yet.

Love this box. Love the colours, the edges, the hinges… Wonderful.

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

Hi Don;
—-another great box here….’wood art’!

And I like the ‘made’ of those hinges….
GODSPEED,
Frank

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I love all your boxes too.

Diane

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Great box Don. Good to see your back home and in the shop.

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Very nice box Don.

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That’s great Don! Just great!

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Beeeuuuuuutiful

-- Paul, Texas

Another great box. Brought back by the miracle of electronics.

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A great looking box Don. That is an interesting hinge you made. Did you do them on the table saw, or the bandsaw, or even by hand?

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Beautiful box, Don. I love it!

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Good to see you back to work! Great job as always.

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I know I posted on this Don, 4 or 5 hrs ago, I must have forgot to hit the post it sign. I think its looking box great. Wooden hinges, box joints, you trying to get on Franks good side. It really is a nice looking box. Deb is quivering in her beaver hat. jockmike

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Real nice! I would love to work with some of this type of wood but I limit myself to wood I mill myself and never spend money buying wood from a dealer…

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Quote Bill: ”That is an interesting hinge you made. Did you do them on the table saw, or the bandsaw, or even by hand?”

Bill, these hinges couldn’t be easier to make. I do them on my Router Table using an Incra Ultra. They are really just box joints with a little hand shaping.

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((the hat is shaking))

It’s one heck of a beautiful box

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

Your hinges look even better in person Don. Obi will vouch for that.

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Great to see your boxes again, Don.

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Another beautiful box as usual Don.
That visit to ”Oh Canada” must have rejuvenated your spirit of woodworking.
You’ve already resolved a problem with your box. Nice going!

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I agree with Mr. Cain. What great box. The hinges are sweeeeet!

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Absolutely Beautiful Don!

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Great looking box mate, I have yet to use any australian rosewood yet. But it does smell wonderful.

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Gee Don: i thought this was an older post. Sorry Great box still no matter when it was made.

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Great box makin Don. True woodworking art. Just another one of your outstanding pieces of woodworking!

I have been looking for your Australian Rosewood used here and cannot find suppliers in the states. Do you have your own personal supplier? Beautiful wood.

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Since Jack brought up the subject of sources for Austrailan woods in the US. Does anyone know a source for Jarrah as well?

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Since a lot of interest has been shown in Australian Rosewood, I thought that some might find it helpful to learn more about this wood.

The information below is from this site which has a lot of information about Australian wood and also some great pictures on the works of some Australian wood artists.

Common Name: AUSTRALIAN ROSEWOOD Botanical Name: Dysoxylum fraseranum (A.Juss) Benth.
Height to: 40 m.

Diameter to: 1.5 m.

Wood Colour: Deep red-brown heartwood, sapwood much paler.

Weight (seasoned 12% m.c.) approx: 720 kg/cu.m.

Texture: Uniform texture sometimes with an interlocked grain.

Comments:
This eastern coast rainforest tree has been banned from being logged in New South Wales state forests due to past over cutting. Some timber though is occasionally available on the market which would either have come from private land or from trees which have either fallen down in a state forest or have had to be removed because of some extenuating circumstance.

It is a beautiful deep red timber, although somewhat brittle, which has a distinctive rose-like odour from which it gets its common name. With some pieces of timber it is very hard to get a good finish as an oleo-resin exudate can persistently seep through making the surface very sticky. This resin can be removed with methylated spirits.

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

Don-
I thought I was in my shop for a moment, until I realized my Incra Jig Ultra hasn’t looked that clean and nice,
well… maybe never. I have made the hinges, but never have used them in a box as I was fuzzy as to how they need to be mounted to provide a stop at 90°. How do you fit them to the box?

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Doug, here's another box posted some time ago that incorporates this style of hinge. The close-up will show how this hinge is attached.

In this box, the hinge is simply glued and pegged to the box lid and body.

This type of hinge is easy to make as it requires only that you make a box joint. Rather than fitting the two halves of the joint together at ninety degrees as you normally would when making a box, you fit them together at 180 degrees. You round the fingers on the inside of the hinge to allow it to pivot. Then you drill a hole through to accept a brass rod to make the axle. I peen the ends of the rod to keep them in place.

The hinge can then be fitted to the box. On the one shown above, I fit the hinge into the lid by cutting into it. (It’s flush with the top surface of the lid, but not the bottom.) I could have let it into the body of the box by cutting a stopped-dado on the outside wall of the box.

In the box below, I used a hinge I made with the Incra Hinge Crafter. This is an entirely different hinge which is installed similarly to a standard brass hinge.

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

I like the looks of the bottom picture hinge installation the best.

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I love this box. I like your idea of a veneered panel in the lid. Must have a go at that

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