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Spending some time working on my box skills. Wifey loves her tea, so i thought this would be a fun little project.
Panel re-sawn on table saw from 3/4” bloodwood board
Sides re-sawn on table saw from 1/2” sugar maple stock
Finish is wipe on poly. Love putting in these splined miters.
Box has some quirks. Surfaces are a little wavey, glue shows on a couple of the joints. I don’t have a hand plane or a thickness planer. One of these is next on my list of tools!
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JR45
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#1 posted 437 days ago
Nicely done. Is the bottom also bloodwood?
-- It always looks better when it's finished!
breadly
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#2 posted 437 days ago
yes both top and bottom are bloodwood – with the saw kerf and a couple of flubs, i was able to get 3 thin panels out of a 3/4” board. The third panel is on the shelf for another project…
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#3 posted 437 days ago
Very elegant… very simple … very nice…
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JR45
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#4 posted 437 days ago
A bandsaw will enable you to get more from your stock wood. Worth the investment. A good hand plane will also pay for itself very quickly. Keep at it!!!
Jim
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robert triplett
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#5 posted 437 days ago
If you had made a few mistakes, your wife might have sprung for better tools!! Nice job on the tea box. I guess that giving it to your wife is a sneaky way to justify more tools. Works for me. I need to make one of these for myself.
-- Robert, so much inspiration here, and so little time!
BarbS
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#6 posted 437 days ago
Nice tea box! I like how you resawed the valuable Bloodwood to get the most out of it. Good job.
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kody
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#7 posted 437 days ago
nice job.
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