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Chunky Slab-Lid Boxes

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These were the second pair of boxes I have made this year (at least before the snow fell). They are made of walnut with bird’s eye maple slab lids. The keys are actually dovetail keys made with some leftover bird’s-eye maple. Once again, my joinery is improving but getting better. Finished in tung oil/varnish blend.

The details of its construction are covered in my blog.

Again, I am disappointed that I will have to wait until spring before I can get out to my shop!

-- Dekker - http://www.WoodworkDetails.com/Blog/MNagy/


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YorkshireStewart

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posted 315 days ago

A lovely honest design that shows off the wood so well. Attractive chamfer around the top and I do like the dovetail keys. If it ever snows here, I doubt I’ll take the ten paces to the shop!

-- Res severa verum gaudium - True pleasure is a serious business.

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SPalm

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posted 315 days ago

Nice ‘chunky’ box. I like it. The keys really do kick it up.

-- Stevethepeeve -- I'm no rocket surgeon

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Bob #2

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posted 315 days ago

Is that design in a book somewhere?
I am sure I have seen it before.

Bob

-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner

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Chip

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posted 315 days ago

When I first saw the pics in thumbnail form I thought the boxes might be too chunky. But on closer inspection, your approach to the lid and the spline make these boxes right on. I really, really like that large, single spline. More great work Dek.

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

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Betsy

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posted 315 days ago

Dekker – it looks great.

Bob#2 the design looks like the one in David Freedman’s book. That’s where I took my pecan box from and this looks similar. Dekker has added dovetail keys which I think makes this box look so much better than plan keys or no keys at all.

Dekker – why no shop time coming up?

-- Betsy - GO BUCKS!

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Karson

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posted 315 days ago

Decker Great little box. Not all boxes have to be big enough to put all your goodies in. A simple, one item box is just great.

I have never thought about a slab of wood for the top. A great idea.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

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cajunpen

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posted 315 days ago

Beautiful box Dekker. I really like your top and finger slot.

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

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Blake

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posted 315 days ago

The joinery is excellent! I have never tried dovetail keys before. I really like that look.

-- Check out my new website! http://www.theeasellife.com

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Dekker

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posted 315 days ago

Bob#2/Betsy yes, the plan was from a book, but I don’t recall which. I had photocopied the pages I needed when I first saw them (months ago?) and just pulled out the pages for the project. The copies are what I work from in the shop. I guess I should mark the source on my copies!

The dovetail keys were an excuse to buy a tiny dovetail bit and it was a learning experience to cut the key itself to the right width. Lesson learned? Do NOT cut the key channel the full depth of the bit… When you later cut/shape the key, you use the same bit to make the slopes, and then adjust the key’s width by reducing its height… Unfortunately, if you’ve cut the channel the full depth of the bit, you can’t afford to lose any of the key blank’s height! Not sure if it is explained clearly, however I’m sure I’ll remember not to do that again… took two tries to get it right!

Betsy: No shop time coming up because the snow has started to fall up here… I’m working in an unheated garage, and my quartz heater can only do so much. A secondary reason is that my baby girl keeps my wife busy all day, and I’d like to spend some time with them… Maybe in the new year, the baby will let me work outside more!

And thanks for the comments everyone.

-- Dekker - http://www.WoodworkDetails.com/Blog/MNagy/

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CharlieM1958

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posted 315 days ago

Taking a look at you blog, and seeing the finished product, it shows that you are a stickler for precision. Really nice work! I have not yet raised my level of patience to these heights, but I’m working on it.

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

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miles125

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posted 314 days ago

Neat little box. Also shows there no such thing as wood scraps!

-- miles125, Alabama.."Architecture is frozen music""

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Douglas Bordner

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posted 313 days ago

Karson and I will attest to that, Miles.
Nice little box Dekker. The dovetail keys do set it off nicely. I hate miters, so I think you have done splendidly, and I like the finger relief in the front and the chamfer. It lightens up the chunkiness.

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

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Karson

12901 posts in 885 days


posted 313 days ago

I don’t know if you have ever seen this jig before. I bought one 10 years ago and have never used it. It would make the cutting and keys for your box very simple.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

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Jiri Parkman

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posted 282 days ago

Perfect.

-- Jiri

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rikkor

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posted 282 days ago

Love the dovetail keys.

-- Maplewood, MN

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davidtheboxmaker

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posted 265 days ago

This is one of these designs that makes the box look simple – in truth you’ve done some really good work to achieve the clean simple lines.
Think I might try and make something along these lines.

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Hawgnutz

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posted 203 days ago

Very nicely done, Dekker. I am making a box for my wife and I think I might “steal” the chamfered edges on the top from your box. I like that design. I also like the top that fits in the rabbets around the top, although I might just make a form-fitting top. I like your execution of this box!

God Bless,
Hawg

-- Saving barnwood from the scrapyards

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