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These are very attractive. I intend to blatantly copy them! ;).

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The flaming Maple and Padauk are always good – Nice looking boxes. I wouldn’t have tried the flame handles myself, but that doesn’t mean it’s wrong – if you could taper the flames to the top, it would be off the charts.

I like them – nice work…

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

Cool…love that curly maple!! Nice project!...........................Jim

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These are good looking boxes! Don’t be so hard on yourself! I like the feet…....

-- There are countless woodworking plans but have you checked out God's plan? Jeremiah 29:11

Very interesting, unique, and appleasing to the eyes.. Thanks for sharing.

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Tiger Maple and Padauk..nice combination. I like the whole set of boxes : )

-- When did quiet and quite become the same word ? I'm guessing about the same time as your and you're did.

Thanks everyone for the comments. In response to JL7’s input about the pulls, I had considered doing more contour work on the pulls, but it took most of a day’s hand sanding to get the saw marks out of the cut faces of the pulls so I wasn’t eager to get too aggressive with my detailing. I also felt that having the pulls in a very obviously artificial construct of something as amorphous and alive as a flame would add to my design juxtaposition of the natural constrained within artificial boundaries. EmeraldDragon: Thank you very much for the compliments, but I still don’t like the feet… :)

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I like the feet and am all in with Acer——I am definitely gonna copy these. I think they are very well done and extremely nice looking. Good job.

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Nicely done

-- Chris G. ; Los Angeles, CA

I like all aspects of your boxes, including the way you did the feet. It is pretty easy to make a frame base with a ‘secret’ compartment: build the frame and box, the cut a rabbit on the inside of the frame and the outside of the box. I usually cut ‘feet for all my boxes on the bandsaw and sometimes route ‘fake feet’ with a 1/2” roundover bit.

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When something is as nice as this….6 photos go soooo fast.

-- Tim Harrelson

I think your feet look great. Are they mitered also?

The flame makes it, no doubt. Very good design work.

Want criticism? Or…. what I would have done, anyway…. I would have let the lid stand a tad bit higher, just a little. In other words, less rabbet on the underside of the lids.

And I almost never use nice wood for the bottom. I just plug in some baltic birch. Save the pretty stuff for where it shows. But that’s just me, I’m a cheap SOB.

Overall, very professional looking project. I’m impressed.

-- Dan V. in Indy

Very nice set of boxes. The combination of Padauk and figured maple look good together and while the Padauk will most likely change in color as time passes the combo will always look good.

-- Randy, Oakdale, Ca.