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Just finished nine of these boxes. Took me a little longer than I anticipated. One of the kids brought home a flu virus with them… courtesy of a classmate from school. Gee thanks! I’m tellin’ you though, I haven’t been down for the count like that in quite some time. It was a doozy. Anyway I did manage to finish the boxes in a little over a week. These particular boxes came from some left over trim from the scrap bin at the local lumber yard. I took the ribs off the back by adding a strip 3/16” thick to the front on the narrower portion and ran the pieces through the planer to get the reverse sides flat and proceeded to miter the corners to the length and width I needed to accomodate the size of lids I made. Then used some flooring for the bottoms. Nothing much, but I couldn’t really think of anything else to use up the short trim pieces I scrounged up earlier. This will be my first posted project. I’m curious to see how much time it takes to load photos on this site. cuttin’ safe, Neal
-- Neal
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GaryK
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#1 posted 1895 days ago
Pretty nice. I like the way you combined the square and round.
-- Gary - Never pass up the opportunity to make a mistake look like you planned it that way - Tyler, TX
Dan'um Style
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#2 posted 1895 days ago
kinda cool … welcome to lumberjocks
looking forward to seeing more of your work
-- keeping myself entertained
CharlieM1958
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#3 posted 1895 days ago
Really nice little boxes. What are the approx. dimensions?
-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"
Paul D
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#4 posted 1895 days ago
Interesting boxes. Kind of have an Asian feel to them. Yep, that flu is a killer. Had my wife down for about 2 weeks. Glad your feeling better! Welcome to LJ.
-- Paul D - Lawrenceville, Georgia
rikkor
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#5 posted 1895 days ago
Nice. I really like the tops.
Scott Bryan
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#6 posted 1895 days ago
These are very nice boxes but they tend to be habit forming so I am sure we are going to see more from you. I really like the overall design and profiling you put on the boxes as well.
As a suggestion on future posts (I am sure there will be some given the success of these boxes) you might want to consider adding pictures from different angles and, of course, the inside as well.
Thanks for the post. I have come to appreciate these projects.
-- Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful- Joshua Marine
teenagewoodworker
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#7 posted 1895 days ago
great boxes. i think that those are worthy of any keepsake that you can find to put in them. great job.
Lee A. Jesberger
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#8 posted 1894 days ago
Hi Neal;
Welcome to lumberjocks
Lots of great people here for sure.
Great looking boxes.
Lee
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RAH
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#9 posted 1894 days ago
Nice boxes and thanks for sharing, looking forward to more projects I never thought of using trim like this thanks.
-- Ron Central, CA
davidtheboxmaker
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#10 posted 1894 days ago
Hi Neal
Good looking boxes – I like the contoured side and the contrasting timber
mcoyfrog
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#11 posted 1489 days ago
These are great
-- Wood and Glass they kick (well you know) Have a great day - Dug
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