Sawing a Sewing box

WOW!This is priceless!

-- Ivan, Croatia, Wooddicted

Wow that is impressive.

-- Galootish log blog, http://www.timberframe-tools.com

This is another one … where … I’m torn:

I either HAVE to show this to my wife, or … MUST NOT show this to my wife.

I’ll work on that decision, myself.

Meanwhile, this is a really beautiful design, and just a great looking piece :-)

-- -- Neil

Great box, well done, color and finish are very nice, good craftsmanship.

-- Tom D

Thats great. I am sure your daughter and wife will absolutly love those, I know I would!

-- Theresa, https://sites.google.com/site/tmj65treasure/

Fernando,

Beautiful Work!! Better leave the router and saw set up- I think you’ll be getting more requests for these.

Lew

-- Lew- Time traveler. Purveyor of the world's finest custom rolling pins!

Nice. I think it looks great!
Give yourself some credit. That is a complicated build.
You should be proud to give such a wonderful gift. I would be.

Steve

-- -- I'm no rocket surgeon

My question is; how long did it take you to get the parallel motion arms to land correctly in both positions?!! Well done!

-- Dave www.bluesagehues.com

Very nice work, I had a friend that wanted me to build a fly fishing box and was thinking of that kind of opening but it never got done, very nice to see the idea in a working piece.

-- Z, Rockwall, TX

Beautiful, that is a wonderful gift.
Best thoughts,
Mads

-- Mad F, the fanatical rhykenologist and vintage architect. Democraticwoodworking.

Fernando – I see none of the flaws that you mention – the box is awesome! Your daughter and wife will love them! Keep on posting…...oh and how is the new router table coming?

-- Jeff - I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Very nice work Fernando, bet she loves it!

-- Les, Wichita, Ks. (I'd rather be covered in saw dust!)

Thank you all for your kind comments.

Well yes, Inés loved the sewing box. Her husband gave her a Sewing machine as present,. And of course, he filled up the sewing box with all kind of gadgets. Which in any case, filling up a sewing box is cheaper than filling the jewelry box, LOL

@ Neil, common, after the $175 bench, this is a piece of cake! Specially if you apply mass production techniques, :)

@ Dave, good point, just on the sixth attempt I got it. I´m sure there is a clever way to find it straight, but I don´t know it. Each brad shows the different attempts in the following pictures

@ zlatanv, Just keep the Flintstones approach. (Or make a lift cylinder as Les did for the Jewelry box, LOL)

Cut two MDF pieces exactly as the lower and upper sides, together with two mdf pivot arms.

Then start a trial and error game hammering a brad until you feel confortable where the top box will end.

As you see, only in the sixth attempt I found a reasonable position for the pivot arms.

Finally I used the two mdf pieces taped together as template for drilling the sides of the boxes. Also the mdf pivot arms were used as templates for the final ones.

-- Back home. Fernando

Hi Jeff, the router table project is still in the wish list. I mean with your NASA kind of RT, you keep rising my bar !! Give some more time to shape my stomach. Thanks for passing by

-- Back home. Fernando

this one and the other sewing box are very nice projects.

-- Ike, Big Daddies Woodshop, http://www.icombadaniels@yahoo.com