Storage Box for joinery

Gary, your work is exquisite and the details in the posting and pictures are most appreciated. It turned out…I can’t find the words…WOW!!

-- Jesus is Lord!

That’s just awesome, Gary! Thanks for the detailed views. I love the process and the outcome!

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

Great construction and great box. Good Luck. But if I get mine completed your in trouble. LOL

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

very impressive work. beautiful box.

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

Holy smokes! Glorious box, and thanks for the blow by blow. Really cool joinery and stunning carving work.

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

Very, very, cool Gary. Of course at this point I expect nothing less than the best from you. This is a great entry to the challenge and very true to the rules.

-- Bob, Carver Massachusetts, Sawdust Maker http://www.capecodbaychallenge.org

Most Excellent

-- Ron, Twain Harte, Ca. Portable on site Sawmill Service http://westcoastlands.net/Sawmill.html http://westcoastlands.net/SawBucks2/phpBB3

Very nice craftmanship in this box, and the over all box is very elegant. good luck on the contest.

-- A man who moves mountains starts one stone at a time.

Gary, congratulations! This is an exquisite example of glueless joinery at its best. Some very careful planning here and great execution. Thanks so much for sharing the details of your joinery methods. Finally, in case you were unaware, I just love small wooden boxes.

Best wishes!

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

the lid!!!
The box!!
The joinery!!
and the process photos/description

ALL well done!!

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

that is a great piece of work, thanks for the details.

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Gary,
Great work as always. It’s great to have guys like you here, who can show us “ordinary” folks how it’s done!
I really appreciate your taking the time to produce these process pictures with explanation.

-- Tom, Surfside Beach, SC - Romans 8:28

Gary,
Great use of the Fox Tenon…If I had more time to compete, that was going to be my method. I love the finish and the carving. Overall a great job. I am sure it will be cherished for years to come.

Karson, you have some competition now… ;-)

-- Greg - Charles Town, WV

Very nice, excellent work!

-- http://theinquisitivewoodworker.com/

Incredible display of joinery, great job!

-- Rob (A) Waxahachie,TX

Great technique, Gary…. you really gave me some ideas to think about.

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

A wonderful piece Gary, and even more wonderful when you know what was involved with making it. The story and pictures were a great help. Some day I will have to try something like this. You and Don have been inspirational on how to make a box without glue or mechanical fasteners. Well done to both of you.

-- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com

Thanks for all your great comments, I appreciate them.

These little boxes are fun to build! I think that I will be making a lot more of them.
It’s something that doesn’t take weeks or months to make like most everything else
I make.

It will also give me a chance to use all the small pieces of exotic woods that I couldn’t
just throw away. (I get a nice piece of wood and I tend to save all the small scrapes)

Well Don, you’ve got a convert.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

Gary, I think you’ve out done yourself!! Thanks for the blow by blow. It will get some use at some point int he future. Great job and thanks

-- Thos. Angle

Beautifully done Gary. Great job all the way around.

-- Greg Mitchell--Lowell, AR--gdamitchell@sbcglobal.net

Wow Gary, thanks for posting the how to photos!

-- John

GaryK

Well done!

As Don as suggested it is a competition, in this Category, of three box makers (so far) ~ I look forward to seeing a flood of other entries within the next 4 days !!!!!!!

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Nice box. Thanks for sharing the construction process. Nothing like having to undo part of it as a reassurance everything will hold.

4 more days for the contest – oops – I best be getting busy!

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

Definately looks like a winner.

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

Beautiful, Gary.

This has been great to see Gary. I love the idea of storing the joint examples in there. They are beautiful. Fantastic job all around.

-- Bob, Carver Massachusetts, Sawdust Maker http://www.capecodbaychallenge.org

Gary, I would also like to see seperately the two pieces that make up the joint.

Very interesting.

Best wishes.

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

I just read the new addition, you just keep raising the bar. You may be the next Tage Frid. Keep at it.

-- Thos. Angle

Beautiful work, great ideas and the tutorial was excellent…

-- Sawhorse - Sulphur Springs, TX - www.sawhorseworkshop.com

Wow… someone who literally made “wood joinery” for the competition. and beautiful ones at that. Looks like i’m not the only lateral thinker here ;)

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

just hand over the prize and lets move on to the next contest…

WOW

Drew

-- Drew, Pleasant Grove, Utah

Don – When I get the chance I will take pictures of the other joints separated. I didn’t
do that because they are kind of easy to visualize unlike the first one.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

oh my goodness !!!!

lol and I’m still working on a straight line.

Amazing

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

Absolutely incredible. I’d love to see how you laid out and cut some of those samples.

-- http://theinquisitivewoodworker.com/

Mike – I will show how I laid them out in a new forum or blog.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

GaryK

Your joints are great, just one question at this time ~ were you able to use any of them as part of this competition?

t.w.

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TonyWard,

Yes, every one of them. I started out just building a box, but since I finished it with time to spare I
figured that I could use my extra time to fill it up.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

Very Nice box GaryK. love the finish on that one.

Very good on your how to photos, and glad you disassebled the one sample. That was a little puzzling to look at.

-- Joel Tille

Nice job Gary, it looks like you got a lot out of this no glue joinery project. You sure impressed the heck out of me. Great job. I bet you learned a lot. jockmike

-- Mike. mwurm13@yahoo.com

Thanks for your detailed descriptions and photos. Very educational and inspiring!

-- Chuck, chuckvosburgh.com

Gary – Congrats … have shown your box to a few friends. One of them had a question about where you get this wood. She searched the web for Sepele and found a couple of spots, but none of them had near the grain that you have. The store I go to does not carry this.

-- Joel Tille

It’s called either Pommele or Quilted Sapele, and it’s rare and expensive to find it with this much figure.
It goes for about $30 to $40 a BF.

I bought a big piece from http://www.anexotichardwood.com before I moved to Texas and
brought it with me.

You can see a sample on the top of the hope chest I made: http://lumberjocks.com/projects/1750

Hope this helps.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

Hey Gary, I just found this in the archives and had to comment. This is truly inspiring. I love joinery and you have kicked it up there. I love the explanation and visuals of what I have always called Japanese skarf joinery.

Thank you,
Steve

-- Stevethepeeve -- I'm no rocket surgeon

Gary this is very impressive work. The engineering is well thought out and the final product is beautiful. I’m glad Steve kicked this back to the top or I might not have seen it.

-- When you give someone a chance it may well be their last.

i missed it also.

tks for sharing G.

-- The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them

I am glad this got yanked out of the archives. Consistently good work, as usual.

Gary,

Like rikkor I pulled this one too. (Actually I just needed to spend more time on the site). This is a gorgeous box. As always it looks like a wonderfully “engineered” project. You definately stepped outside the box on this one. By the way the carving adds nice detail to the piece. I am not sure that I would have had the “courage” to attempt something like this as an initial carving project. But this one is very nice. You should add more of this to your projects. It is really well done.

-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.

very impressive work.Very Nice box GaryK.

-- jeanmarc manosque france

Hey Gary
Once Again I’m very impressed and intrigued by your work. I really like the joinery in the box and the Box WOW but the blow by blow photos are no longer there. Were did you find all of those most unique joints you so beautifully executed ?

Jim

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

Thanks Jim. The pictures are still there.

If for some reason you can’t see them, you can find them here: http://www.arealnice.com/box/

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.