Ash Box with Hinged Lid

It does look great Jim. Good tip on the pilot holes too ;-]

-- Chris

Good Job , Looks great.

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

Jim a great looking box. And you got the problem out of the house. So now you can heal.

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

Great looking box! Love the Ash / PurpleHeart combo.

Good tip on pilot holes. Have done that myself.

Keep it up!

-- Scrap Wood's the best...the projects are smaller, and so is the mess!

great looking project

-- It's not a sickness, i can stop buying tools anytime.

It’s just really nice. I love the clean look of a lot of projects on LJ’s. Just enough to be decorative without overdoing it.

-- The smell of wood, coffee in the cup, the wife let's me do my thing, the lake is peaceful. http://web.me.com/deceiver6/Deceiver/Craftsman_on_the_lake/Craftsman_on_the_lake.html

I agree with Daniel. Very nice looking box.

-- Andy

Great Lookin Job

-- Jim, Kentucky

Very nice combination of species . I just finished a PurpleHeart project and kept thinking that I should have filled the pores as well .
http://lumberjocks.com/projects/16691

-- You know you're getting old when you know the difference between you're (you are) and your (belonging to you) AND how to use them in a sentence .

Ihave been wanting to make a box with this type of lid
but not sure what the process is? did you do the ash like a picture frame and cut the purple heart out for the center?

Real nice work Jim! Thanks for sharing.

-- spanky46 -- Never enough clamps...Never enough tools...Never enough time.

eddy, I build this box based on a Fine Woodworking article by Doug Stowe, a preeminent box-builder. The title of the article is, “A Better Way to Build Boxes”. You need to be a member to view this article but they offer a Free 2-week trial membership that will let you take a look at (or download) the plans for this box and many others.

Jim

i think i have that issue in a stack of wood working mag.s in the shop
i will look there if not sounds like the membership will be the way to do
thanks for the help

That is a nice looking box Jim I’m sure your granddaughter will love it. You mentioned a table saw accident, I’m glad that you seemed to have fully recoved but will you share with us what happened? Maybe it will be a chance for others to learn from your mistake?

-- The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that our aim is too low and we reach it.. Michelangelo

Choppertoo, what do you mean mistake? I don’t make mistakes!!! ;-))

I had a rather serious incident with my table saw blade on March 5. Severely cut the index and middle finger on my left hand, severing the tendon in my middle finger that controls the upper knuckle and wiping out a bunch of nerves. My initial message on this accident is located here. I’m still receiving PT for the fingers – very little, if any, feeling in the sides of my middle and second finger towards my ring finger and, oddly, the same on the inside of my ring finger which only received a very small nick at the tip of the finger – the therapist thinks it must me caused from having my hand and wrist immobilized for six weeks. The tip of the middle finger shows no movement from the upper knuckle – the ortho surgeon thinks that the tendon repair worked but that the lack of movement is caused by adhesions. Still have considerable pain as the joints, tendons, ligaments that were inactive for over six weeks stretch with use. But, at least no one calls me “stumpy”!!!

Jim

Bad luck with the saw. Very nice, elegant box with good use of contrasting timbers. In my experience ash is very difficult to plane and therefore finish, so I’m really impressed with what you’ve achieved here.

-- Stanley generally struggling

Jim great looking box and nice to see you are able to get back in the shop. Looking forward to seeing pics of the doll chest when you are finished. Hope the hand keeps healing well and you regain movement in all fingers.

-- F.Little