Slide top boxes

Very nice box’s. Great tops. Do you have any problem with the tops cupping at all??

-- Max "Desperado", Salt Lake City, UT

The frist few I had to remake because the top veneered peice would cup so badly. I solved the problem by veneering the backside with some quartersawn cherry I had laying around and making sure the cauls I used in the laminating was flat. If you look close at the maple top you can see the cherry veneer layer is.

Yipee! Another box maker! The tops are beautiful. Asher, welcome to LJ’s – and in case you didn’t know, I just love small wooden boxes.

Can I suggest that you crop out more of the background in your pictures? That way we will see more box in the same space.

Looking forward to more small wooden boxes!

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

nice boxes ! I’m inspired to try one like them

-- ..... art for lifes sake ... danwalters@lumberjocks.com

Beautiful wood and great woodworking Asher! What are the sizes? Thanks for posting these.

-- Better to say nothing and be thought the fool... then to speak and erase all doubt.

Chip thanks for the encouraging words.They are 2 1/2” h x 3 1/2” d x 6”l.

Nice boxes Asher. I’ve been dying to try some veneering, maybe this will be the push I needed. I have some beautiful Walnut Burl veneer that is probably 40-50 years old. My wife works for a door company and her boss had about a dozen 8”x10” pieces from the 50’s for me to try. Gotta try it out.

-- Bill - "Suit yourself and let the rest be pleased." http://www.cajunpen.com/

Really nice. I need to make some more. Thanks for sharing and inspiring.

-- Jeff, St. Paul, MN

Very nice boxes. I love a good box.

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

I like them very much I am making a box myself right now, using inlayed walnut in pine, first time I ever did inlay work. If that goes good I think I may try something like these next.

-- Jeff B.

very nice! I love the “secret” sliding lids

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

good looking boxes!

-- Dorje (pronounced "door-jay"), Seattle, WA

Asher, you’d better watch out!! Ol’ Don is warmin’ up to want a box building contest!! Great work.

-- Thos. Angle, Owyhee Design, Oregon

Now that would be an interesting contest..building boxes…

Nice work Asher.

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

Very nice boxes, Asher. I like to make boxes, too. My next ‘project” is a box of ash with walnut framing.
Very nice keys in joint!
I am with Bill. A box-making contest would please me some. Good excuse for geting new wood! LOL

God Bless,
Hawg

-- Saving barnwood from the scrapyards

These boxes are terrific. I really like the splines. Did you use a jig to cut them?

-- JP, Shelbyville, KY

Here is the jig I use JP. Hope this works this is the frist time I have imbedded a pic. Did someone say box building contest? SIGN ME UP!