A new box

that maple is gorgeous and the purple heart is a great contrast. well done!

Beautiful work! I love the curves of the box and the splined miters look great!
I am curious how you cut the bevels to join the box sides with miters? I recently built 4 sides that are mitered frames (around fret sawed panels), haven’t joined the box together yet, and don’t want to mess up the box cutting inaccurate bevels to join the sides. If my angles are wrong, I’m afraid that there will be a gap while looking down at the box. Did you use a router table, a table saw with a tilted blade, or some other method? If you used a table saw, did you use a jig or just run it against the rip fence with the blade tilted?
Sorry to ask so many questions but I’m really afraid to ruin the box while joining the sides and you seem to have done a perfect job of doing what I’m afraid to do!
Thanks for the help!
Michael

Fantastic box wonderful wood and design outstanding work

-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/

Sweet. A lot of stuff going on here, and well executed. I like the ribbon restraint, and choice of woods. Very handsome and not too busy.

Did you do a bevel on the sides after glue up? So the insides are vertical? It is hard to tell from the pictures.

Good Job,
Steve

-- -- I'm no rocket surgeon

Great combination of woods, and the construction looks perfect.

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

Thanks all.
Michael, the mitres are cut on the mitre saw (imagine that!) :) I have a very good mitre saw and it’s set up extremely accurately, a must.

Steve, your right, the box was assembled, corner keys installed, and then a 5* bevel was cut on the outside of the box. An easy technique and I like it because the keys end up different sizes but started all the same.

Boom

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Nice. I hadn’t thought to bevel the outside, but that handles two issues at once—trimming the keys and adding visual interest!

Was the top cut away from the box or built separately? I’m almost certain given the grain pattern that it was cut free but I don’t always trust my instincts….

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That is a very nice box. I have to make some boxes as I’m a beginner.

-- Paul, Bristol,Rhode Island

Great Work, Ryan!! I was wondering about that bevel myself. Thanks for the explanation…

-- Mike in Concord, NH---Unpleasant tasks are simply worthy challenges to improve skills.

The combination of wood is spectacular, great design and workmanship as well

Doug

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Very smooth Ryan. beautiful wood, very good build

-- Mike, Bruce Mississippi = Jack of many trades master of none

Very well done. That African Mahogany is beautiful wood and I really like the way you used the Purple Heart.

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