small box

What a great accident. You’re a creative person!

-- Bruce from Central New York

Sounds like you had fun creating this box!

Dropping your miter gauge can be beneficial. Nice work!

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

That’s a really neat design. Thanks for posting!

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

I agree with the Toms. Great Box.

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

Love the box, have to admit I’m not familiar with a “spline jig”. Mind posting a pic?

-- DocK, WV

I think I need to drop my miter gauge….....

Very nice. Don will love this one.

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

Great looking box – I’m going out to the shop right now to throw my Miter Gauge and see what develops – with my luck, I’ll have to buy an new MG.

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

Yeah Bob, Don just loves little boxes, and this one is little! ;)

The legs look like characters to me… loosely stylized people carrying the box. Very cool. Amazing what can happen when were being extemporaneous. Nice!

-- 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/

very nice box. some info on the spline jig would be cool. i always wanted to make some boxes just did not know what or how to decorate them. i guess just start cutting wood and see what comes of it .

-- mjhaines

OK, OK, I like it! No, I love it, ‘cause I just love small wooden boxes.

TK, this is a very interesting box – I like the way you allowed your available wood determine the look. It has an Oriental feel to it. I agree with Scott. The legs looks like people lift and shoving the box toward each other; kind of a reverse tug of war – or should that be a push of war?

Nice work!

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

the write-up is wonderful!!!!
had to laugh at the last sentence :)

Magnificent box you made through the process. Well done.

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

You should have titled it “Magical Miter Gauge tour” :)

“spline jig” http://sawdustmaking.com/About%20Joints/about_joints.htm
Down the bottom of the page

-- "so much to learn and so little time"..

Beautifull box! I love the angled splines. It definatley has a very oriental feel to it.

Some of the best projects are born out of scrap wood and boredom!

-- David, South Windsor, CT "I love the smell of sawdust in the morning"

Nice looking box Tekton. I like the contrast between the woods. I think you have one Christmas present already completed.

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

Nice project and the story was fun to read. You do good work !

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

Spline Jig

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

Thanks all for the kind words, I’m usually reasonably sure my projects will turn out ok but I have no idea how my post turned out that well. Must have been the lunar phase or something : )

-- tektōn an artificer, that is, (specifically) a craftsman in wood: - carpenter. http://cicc.wordpress.com