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This is a simple little box. It just takes some patience and a good belt in the stationary sander. The design I was working from had a drawer in the bottom (Donna Menke design-a LJ in good standing). I decided to keep it simple and just do the lift top.
Yellowheart is great to work with. I would warn those not familiar with it that it tends to be a little deceiving. You think you have all of the saw marks and little scratches out and then you find a whole mess of them when you look under a different light. So yo have to be patient and be willing to go back and get marks that you could have sworn you had gotten rid of.
Many band saw boxes utilize the basic pattern of taking off the back, cutting out the drawers, taking the drawers apart and removing the core, putting the drawers back together and putting the back on to the body. After that it’s just a lot of sanding and shaping. This one is a little different since there is no drawer to remove. So, you start by taking off the sides, cutting the lid from the core, cutting the chest bottom from the bottom of the core and then reassembling it so it all works. A little different.
The two biggest challenges with this design are getting the lid to lift straight up without rubbing on the sides and carefully sanding the lines where the front and back of the lid meet the base. If you do it wrong you end up with huge gaps and the whole thing looks bad.
I should have left the inside empty but I applied a wine colored flock. Without a definitive drawer edge to work with I just kind of stopped. To me it looks a little awkward. Although the wine fibers look really good with the yellowheart wood.
This is a pretty small piece, only 6” wide, 3 ” tall and 3 1/2” deep. The hasp is brass. The finish is thinned poly with lots of loving from 0000 steel wool.
-- Behind the Bark is a lot of Heartwood----Charles, Centennial, CO
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Maxx
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posted 178 days ago
I like this one – very nice look to it. I’ve had similar feelings about flocking the inside of a box like this…and I just stopped when I thought it should stop…there’s got to be another strategy. We’ll have to work on that.
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a1Jim
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posted 178 days ago
hey Charles
This is one cool box smooth clean look and great details
-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon
TopamaxSurvivor
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posted 178 days ago
Nice box, it looks like it isn’t very deep inside. Is that an optical illusion?
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Durnik150
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posted 178 days ago
It’s deeper than it looks. That’s the flocking issue I was dealing with. I didn’t want to run the flocking all the way up the side to where it would interfere with the top and I didn’t want to exclude the sides completely. So, what you see is the arbitrary stop line.
I should have just left it natural but you live and you learn.
-- Behind the Bark is a lot of Heartwood----Charles, Centennial, CO
TopamaxSurvivor
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posted 178 days ago
Oh well!, to line or not to line, that is the question??
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tomakazi
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posted 178 days ago
Good job, I think I’ll try one of these for my daughter. I’ve never tried flocking before. I was thinking a guy could get some paint to match the flock and just paint where it might rub off.
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Durnik150
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posted 178 days ago
If you go with the “official” flocking kit the adhesive you spread on the surface is the same color as the fibers you blow in to attach to it. You can do some cross coloring llike a brown adhesive and wine colored fibers but if you get too far off it starts to look really odd. Of course it may be a creative way to bring in color combinations that are new!
-- Behind the Bark is a lot of Heartwood----Charles, Centennial, CO
TopamaxSurvivor
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posted 178 days ago
Sheesh, I thought it was a material you lined it with. My wife has something she called flocking when sewing:-)
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degoose
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posted 178 days ago
You sure do love the bandsaw.
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savannah505
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posted 178 days ago
You really got the box making down pat. Thats a great looking box, and harder than it looks to make. Great job.
-- Dan Wiggins
AllorNoThumbs
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posted 178 days ago
It is beautiful! You can use masking tape as you would to paint, I apply masking tape where I want the flock to end up the side of a box, just pull the tape when the flock glue is a least 3/4 dry.
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chickenhelmet
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posted 178 days ago
Another beauty! I like the simple design. I was about to make a comment about how it looked like a mini pirate treasure box. Guess I should read the titles before opening my mouth. Again very nice work!
-- Larry , Colorado www.coloradorecordcrates.com