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I stole the idea for these from pictures I found online. I’d give the designer credit if I could find my way back to the web page. They were originally designed and built as furniture for kids room. I just thought they would make cool jewelry boxes. Free handed the shapes since I had no patterns or drawings. The curved boxes were cut from poplar. Not my first choice of wood but the best I had at the time. I was trying to stain one white without hiding the grain so I found a can of oil based gloss white paint. Applied, wiped, sanded, and repeated. And repeated again. (Y’know I don’t think poplar was made to be stained or tinted). It’s got kind of an antique look so let’s just say i planned it that way.The bottom was made from a rough sawn plank of what I thought was mahogany or cherry until i started planing and cutting on it. Man that was the hardest and most dense wood I have ever seen. The closest thing i compared it to at woodcraft was brazilian cherry. but I’m really not sure what type of wood it is. Not pictured are my first ever dovetail joints on the drawer boxes. Tried cutting them with table saw, then router and jig, ended up cutting them by hand. Only way to go on something that small. The tall one measures 13 1/2×5 1/2×6. The other is 16” wide x 12” x 6.
-- J.C.Sellers
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waho6o9
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#1 posted 433 days ago
Most excellent work!
Enoelf
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#2 posted 433 days ago
Pretty sweet boxes there Jim. I love the idea of bandsaw boxes. I got a Craftsman bandsaw a year ago and haven’t really done much with it. Gonna have to get it tuned up!
-- Central Ohio, Still got 9 and 15/16 fingers!
rowka
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#3 posted 433 days ago
That is very cool.
Gene Howe
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#4 posted 433 days ago
Really nice looking boxes, Jim. Excellent work.
-- Gene 'The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.' G. K. Chesterton
Ken90712
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#5 posted 433 days ago
Nice design, different is a good thing!
-- Ken, "Everyday above ground is a good day!"
sarahss
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#6 posted 433 days ago
very cool boxes. i’ve seen the furniture you mentioned, but can’t remember his name either.
Roger
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#7 posted 433 days ago
oh yes, yes and yesss. luv em…....... OH, and congrats on the top-3 very kool
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emtwoodworker
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#8 posted 433 days ago
Great looking boxes.
Here’s the website http://www.straightlinedesigns.com/
Jeff Tobert
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#9 posted 433 days ago
Yes the man you are trying to give credit to is Judson Beaumont, Straight line Design.
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Dave
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#10 posted 433 days ago
I am thinkin Alice in Wonderland. NICE!
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Jim Sellers
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#11 posted 433 days ago
Thanks for all your compliments. And to emtwoodworker and jtobs, after extensive googling, askdot coming, and searching, you’re right about Judson Beaumont and straight line designs (cool site). He did the cindy dresser (the tall sassy one) But the white one sitting on her but was designed by Vincent Lemans http://ifitshipitshere.blogspot.com/2008/05/vincent-lemans-warped-sense-of-style.html
It’s his take on the painting by Eduard Manets’ ‘Olympia” ( a prostitute laying on the bed nude) I left out the red flower in her hair. Let’s don’t tell the kids.
-- J.C.Sellers
plantek
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#12 posted 432 days ago
These are fantastic…
Great job!
Thanks for posting.
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grosa
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#13 posted 432 days ago
That’s cool, I like it.
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