Burl-Top Box

Very nice Charlie. Please send a dozen beignets to the following address … :)

-- Paul D, Atlanta GA

I don’t believe you lied about this. A beautiful piece of craftsmanship!

Those are perfect hinges for a box like this. They’re very attractive.

I love the walnut, it looks great with that color of veneer.

-- Dick Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

Thanks!

Dick, it is kind of funny looking back now. I laid everything out so carefully, set up stop blocks on my router table, mortised both sides, top and bottom, hollowed out the necessary space for the arm of the hinge… and it wasn’t until I was testing the fit of the hinges that it hit me…”Oh no….this isn’t how it is supposed to go!” LOL!

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Nice! I need a box just like this for my desk stuff!

This is one gorgeous box you should be proud of.

-- Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.

Nice box, Charlie! I like the hindges, whether they are an original intent or a design enhancement.

-- Jack - Mission Viejo, Calif

Whats a beignet? Whats a Monde? Great looking box Charlie, I don’t know where you were going with the rest of that stuff. Mike

-- Mike. Profisher50@yahoo.com

That’s hilarious… I must be “mistake blind,” because that is one great looking box, Charlie!... I hear those beignets are good for “sugar-induced comas.”

Oh sure, put’em below me… my little picture Icon can’t reach’em… “Hon, Get out the deepfryer!”

-- As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)

For anyone who doesn’t know, they are a New Orleans delicacy.

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

serves you right for not sharing the beignets charlie ! lol id just set it out for the garbage man , by the way about your address ? lol nice box charlie

-- if you aint the lead dog the scenery never changes

go ahead rub it in charlie i hope the top is on upside down next time ! lol

-- if you aint the lead dog the scenery never changes

Charlie, very nice box. I can’t see any mistakes.

-- If we learn from our mistakes, I'm getting a fantastic education.

Hi Charlie

You could of fooled me. Not ever using this type of hinge I would have thought that is the way they are mounted. If this is the kind of work you turn out when eating beignuts, you best keep eating them. Beautiful
box and great job.

God Bless
tom

-- Mc Bridge Cabinets, Iowa

Thank you all.

Just to clarify for those not familiar with quadrant hinges, if you mount the against the inside edge of the box, they are invisiblle from the side when the box is closed. Like on this one.

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Hey Charlie, no matter which way you went the box looks great. love that top, and great job shaping it as well. Oooooohhhh beeeiiiggggnnnnnuuuuttttttsssss! LOL

-- Jim Hallada, Newport News, VA, soon to be Chesterfield, VA

I just DROOLED all over my keyboard!

-- Dick Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

Nice job, Charlie. And when you send my beignets, you don’t have to make a special box, cardboard is fine.

-- Tim -- http://tmuli.com

Thats one great looking box – keep on eating your beignets :)

-- Canadian Wood Chuck (Bruce)

truly well made and stylish

-- making sawdust....

Looks pretty good to me Charlie, the box I mean… Chuckie don’t eat much cake! I like the burl and I think the hinges look cool the way you mounted them. Nice Job.

-- --Chuck

Charlie. A great looking box. And most people would never know the difference.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

Looking good, Charlie. I think Karson is right on the money.

You might want to borrow my Beall (spelled it right this time) Hinge Wizard

to see if it’s worth having one of your own. It does make it easier to center the leaves on the edge of the stock.
The insert I have only works with the Non-Pareil Quads he sells, although you can get them for Brusso’s.

I’ve only done one box with them since buying the jig. If I had a second plunge router I would be using it steadily on bigger (5/8 or thicker stock) boxes, but taking the motor out of the table and going through that set up seemed a bit much and my laminate trim base is not precisely centered so it gets a a little too fiddly. I guess this means I really need two more routers – the Triton and the Bosch Colt.

What I want to know about this box is this: what is the veneer (?) on the inside of the lid. That rocks!
I like the way the cherry insert mirrors the light shade of the Madrone burl and the mitered stand is excellent as well.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

Thanks, Doug. I remember discussing the Beall jig before. It is on my wish list.

Funny story about the inside of the lid. When I went to glue up the madrone veneer, I just grabbed a scrap of 1/2” birch ply I had laying around that I had used for testing stain colors when I was making my bookcase for the office. My intention was to eventually cover the inside of the box with felt, so I wasn’t worried about the stain. Turns out, as you said, it looked pretty good, so I just left it alone. By the way, the veneered ply floats in dados routed into the box sides.

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

That’s a fine looking box Charlie, and I agree with the others – the hinges look like they belong with that box just the way they are.

I remember seeing ‘beignet mix’ at some stores when I was down your way last month, but I had no idea what it was and didn’t ask. Rats. They look very much like a deep fried donutty type thing my wife’s German grandmother used to make. She called them ‘krepples’ and didn’t use quite so much sugar on top (although when she wasn’t looking everyone doused them anyway :-).

Cheers,
Kerry

-- Alberta, Canada

This is nice, Charlie. I love what a simple application you gave it (paperclips and batteries!) It’s great that you actually photographed it with it’s intended cargo.

-- Dust collectors suck.

Hi Charlie,

This is a fine looking box. Remember there are no mistakes in woodworking only opportunities for adding additional details.

Thanks for the post.

-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.

Hey Charlie… nice box… I love the burl veneer! Nice pic of the beignets… Cafe du Monde make the best! I sure hope you didn’t eat all those yourself… if that doesn’t give you diabetes, then nothing will!!!

-- Learn something everyday!

When you are a native, you build up a tolerance to sugar and chickory. :-)

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

I’m sure the chicory does something to the body’s mobilization and utilization of insulin and glucagon to offset the chance of developing type II Diabetes.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

Beautiful wood and workmanship. I believed your story, should have stuck with it. I have never had the pleasure of a “beignets down at Cafe du Monde” but have seen them several times on the cooking and travel channels. I think it is pretty low of you to rub it in on those of us who are culturally challenged. The only way I can see that you can possibly make it up to us is to mail four or five to each of us for taste testing…What do you say?

Charlie, I don’t see the mistake. I guess I’m mistake blind too.

-- Terry Roswell, L.A. (Lower Alabama) "Life is what happens to you when you are making other plans."

Well if we’re going to do it right….they are only good hot out of the deep fryer, so I’ll just have to send everyone a plane ticket. :-)

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Charlie, your work is beautiful. What is all those fancy words, is it as good as possum an tatters?

-- www.flickr.com/photos/egamarine/

put me down for the ticket charlie , if you dont mind make it during jazz fest please ! lol

-- if you aint the lead dog the scenery never changes

Yup, I’m for the ticket, too… I’m waiting anxiously at the mailbox… pictures of beignets and chickory dancing in my head…

Heck, forget the mail, send me an e-ticket… I’ll leave tonight…. there’s nothing wrong with having that for dinner, right? lol

-- As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)

It is a beautiful box with those special hinges. I have a sweet tooth and your picture of New Orleans delicacy is mouth watering. I am not diabetic. Thanks for the post.
Sharad

-- patanjali

you are becoming box-masterson

keep them coming

-- a legend in my own mind ...