Swing lid box with multiple woods

nice box i like the design
what book are you talking about i have been thinking of getting a box making book for some design ideas?

great box Bruce

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

Box makers Bible… “Box Making Basics” David M Freeman
maybe out of print but I found mine online at amazon used.

-- Bruce

Wow! Nice job with the laminations and with the box. Nice idea with the magnets – I didn’t think of it with my box like this but my lids didn’t swing too freely after I inserted the brass pins in the body.

Eddy, two books that I would recommend to boxmakers – “Box Making Basics”, by David M. Freeman, as mentioned by abie above (available on www.half.com from $8.53) and “Basic Box Making” by the master boxmaker, Doug Stowe (available on half.com from $10.45). A DVD is also available for “Basic Box Making” that pretty much covers the boxes in the book along with the jigs that the author uses and recommends. I have both and while the book is excellent, the DVD really tied things together.

Jim

Beautiful box and wise hardwood laminations of various species.

-- masrol, kuala lumpur, MY.

Nice, I like the use of the plywood (I assume baltic birch), it really added a nice touch.

-- Measuring twice and cutting once only works if you read the tape right!

Too nice to cut on LOL
Nice box. Love the choice of timbers for the lamination, complimentary and contrasting … my favourite.

-- Drink once, cut twice. New website up.... lazylarrywoodworks.com.au

Great looking box. Nice design and the split lid is a nice extra. Good idea holding the lids shut with magnets.

Keep it up.

Scrappy

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

Love the box!
Love the stripes!
Love the top!
Very creative design. I’ll be looking to find that book.
Ellen

-- Ellen on Cape Cod

Great box! I’m going to look for that book as well.

-- Paul, Winterset Iowa,