Just a Box

Nice recovery Tom.
What doesn’t show here is the fact the the first pass with the finger joint attachment for the Akeda gave poor old Tom “hammer tight” joints.

The jigs in incredibly simple to set up and use but I guess the tolerance for finger joint need three different bushing sizes like Goldie locks and the porridge.(too big too small and just right)
That’s better than I had in the Army for clothing. (Too big or Too small) <g>

As Tom says above it ended up being Hotstufff glue up .
Good job and nice recovery Tom.

Bob

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

I like the variable spacing on the joints. Now Tom, just enjoy the jig and don’t obsess about the saw and chisel. Groovy box hardware and a smooth hand rubbed finish and it would be quite stylish. And it does qualify for Boxhound status…Betcha can’t make just one, they’re addictive.

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

Hi Tom;

Nice joinery! You’re right, them’s some tight joints.

Nice to get good customer service from a company nowdays.

Nice job!

-- by Lee A. Jesberger http://www.prowoodworkingtips.com http://www.ezee-feed.com

Nice box and nice joinery. I’ll have to take a look at that Akeda jig. I have been thinking about acquiring a dovetail/box joint cutting jig. Great work Tom!

-- Women love me.....trees fear me

Nice box Tom. I’m with Lee and Douglas, in that I really like the spacing on your box joints. Well done.

Lee, I just sent the link to your ezee-feed site to a couple of friends that are each running a 1 man cabinet shop. I was telling them about how much easier the ezee-feed would make their lives. Hope you pick up a couple of sales.

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

excellent blog
nice box

and, as always, I am inspired by the feedback from your other half!

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

Gulp. Deb jogs were others fear to tread…

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

hey Mot, I’m guessing that your wife is a very practical person… purpose and function, foremost

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

Handsome box there Mot!

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

My wife has been bugging me to finish the panel behind our stove, so I have lbeen ooking around for some way to just cover it up. What I am leaning towards are those decorative copper panels that would stick to the wall. I think those little panels would really accent something like this or perhaps something similar to the beautiful tiles that Dan Walters does with the box becoming a multi purpose frame of sorts.

-- If knowledge is not shared, it is forgotten.

Thanks for the comments folks. Douglas, I bet I can’t just make one of them either. I like the way the joinery looks, but it’s through no fault of mine…the Akeda jig is pretty idiot proof, so I can’t lay claim to any precision or accuracy.

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

Great box Tom. And it satisfy its purpose.

You going to put dividers in it for different puzzles.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

It’s too small to bother with dividers. Mot Jr. is 2 years old so his puzzle pieces are about the size of CD’s…they just stack nicely. It’s about 6” square.

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

Mot! How dare you! There is no such thing as JUST a box. Do you want to offend Don. I’d rephrase that if I were you. That is a beautiful cherry box. Nice box joints. mike

-- Mike. Profisher50@yahoo.com

Tom, when I see a nicely made box like this, I’m reminded why I just love small wooden boxes. This one is sweet.

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

You’re very right, Mike. After looking at it some more, it’s a pretty nice box. The finger joint spacing is growing on me.

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

I really like it. Looks like the kind of box you’ld find all of your granddads old stuff in. Strudily built and full of purpose.

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

sweet little box for your family

-- ..... art for lifes sake

I’ll bet Mot, Jr. won’t outgrow it, ever.

Ah – little box – the repositories of treasured items of youth, secret spaces filled with memories and dreams, alive with possibilities. What mysteries lurk there, what potentialities exist in your dark recesses, ready to spring to life with the lifting of the lid (slapping self). I know why Don loves small wooden boxes. And so do I.

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

Looking at that delightful box, there’s absolutely no indication that you were distracted by voice communications, Bob ‘looking over your shoulder’, a misaligned saw, having to pound the joints with a hammer, glue starvation and fitting crappy hardware. Amazing!

Oh, you’ll have to tell Mrs Mot that boxes don’t need to be for anything!

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

Tom, I wouldn’t allow a box like that to be anywhere in my shop, I’d be so ashamed to have made someting that bad that I’d throw it out at the first opportunty. I’d probably throw it all the way to Oregon. Yeah, it’s bad. I think I need an Akida.

-- Thos. Angle, Owyhee Design, Oregon

I agree with the others..the joints are very nicely done and I like the variable spacing.Will need to try that sometime.

-- " Stubborn tenacity substitutes for natural ability" ANDY

Nothing mediocre about this box in my estimation, Tom. As a matter of fact, I’m kinda ticked that here you turn out something I would be bragging about, and make it sound like something you knocked off with one hand while you were doing a crossword puzzle with the other.

I had to laugh, because every time I make a new box my wife asks me what it’s for. I just give her the old blank stare.

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

Okay, Charlie. How did you find out that I was doing a crossword? Did Bob say something?

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

Well, I really didn’t know what you were doing with your other hand, but I figured it had to be something.

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

That box is a beaut Tom. Terrific craftsmanship on the joinery. Very, very nice.

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

Alright Tom,

Very nice box. When should we expect a hand-cut dovetailed box from you?

Alin

-- -- Alin Dobra, Gainesville, Florida

The next one, Alin…the next one.

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

Every wood project is just a box!! It is kind of funny I have done some of my best work in almost exactly the same way. Somebody will come into the shop and say what are you going to do with this? It will be a piece that I forgot that I had. I’ll say this. And bam, there it is. Some times with all the planning and measuring and more planning and measuring it really frees you up to just make something that looks right. Good work.

-- Woodworking is Life. Anything before or after is just waiting.--S. McQueen sort of

Nice box Tom!

-- Krisztian (from Hungary) VA