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When I started making my garage into a woodworking shop, a friend asked me to make her a “Hope Chest”. That was much too big of a task for a beginner like me. So for her birthday I made her this “miniature” hope chest. The we packed it into a real hope chest sized cardboard box. She was very surprised when she opened it.
It was a very good project for learning because I started with rough lumber, milled it, made box joints, and did small glue ups to achieve the final effect. The wood is oak and walnut and a strip of mahogany in the lid and on the bottom.
It may not be a hope chest but it is a very nice recipe box. :)
-- EGO postulo , EGO venalicium , EGO incidere. I measured, I marked, I cut. Latin instructions for firewood.
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CharlieM1958
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#1 posted 1382 days ago
For a first box, that’s a great job!
-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"
dustbunny
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#2 posted 1382 days ago
This is really nice, and a special gift.
The color choices of wood look great together, and the box joints look very well done.
Congratulations on succeeding with new skills !
Lisa
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Andy
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#3 posted 1382 days ago
Wow! That is very well done for a first box.Dont stop now,I look forward to seeing more.
-- If I can do it, so can you. www.artboxesbyandy.com
CreekWoodworker
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#4 posted 1382 days ago
The box turned out really nice and I like your choice of wood.
-- Mike ...Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction
littlecope
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#5 posted 1382 days ago
Wow, that’s your FIRST try? Great Job!! Do you have the itch to make another one yet? :-)
-- Mike in Concord, NH---Unpleasant tasks are simply worthy challenges to improve skills.
patron
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#6 posted 1382 days ago
very nice !
you have a gift ,
let’s see more .
....please .
-- david - only thru kindness can this world be whole . If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure. Dan Quayle
David65
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#7 posted 1382 days ago
Very nice first peace. My first was a small coin box I made out of yellow pine without finger joints so Thumbs up to you and your first peace. Maybe next year you can surprise her with a bigger one.
-- David '65
Mikeyf56
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#8 posted 1382 days ago
thats just plain beautiful, great job…..
-- Powered by Smith & Wilson~~~
CanuckGal
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#9 posted 1382 days ago
Thanks folks! I have made a few more boxes for storage around the shop and to practice up on box joints. But I have some nice purpleheart and blood wood I am going to try something with. :)
-- EGO postulo , EGO venalicium , EGO incidere. I measured, I marked, I cut. Latin instructions for firewood.
a1Jim
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#10 posted 1382 days ago
Super first box Gal keep up the good work.
-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/
scrappy
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#11 posted 1382 days ago
Great job on your first box. Nice tight joints and the wood choice compliments each other.
Keep it up.
Scrappy
-- Scrap Wood's the best...the projects are smaller, and so is the mess!
ellen35
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#12 posted 1382 days ago
Very creative. Nice execution.
Just a nice box for a nice occasion.
Looking forward to more!
Ellen
-- Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
Kristoffer
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#13 posted 1373 days ago
Great job, it’s beautiful!!! Great choice of woods. I can’t wait to see how the hope chest turns out.
-- Cheers and God Bless
dustygirl
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#14 posted 1325 days ago
Nice looking box for your first one.Good job.
-- Dustygirl..Hastings,Ontario.. How much wood can 1 gal chuck if 1 gal can't cut wood?
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