Bruce's box - a gift for our departing manager complete

Good lookin’ box Stanley! Well done!

-- Paul D, Atlanta GA

great looking box. i especially like the dovetails on the side! I’ve had to salvage wood from projects gone wrong a couple of times too. great job!

Stanley,

This is a nice box. I like its design and the dovetails look fine to me.

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.

Excellent looking box- what brand of Danish oil do you use?

Very nice box. You did a great job on it. Thanks for posting.

God Bless
tom

-- Mc Bridge Cabinets, Iowa

Very nice looking box. Sounds like you had some valuable learning opportunities along the way!

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

Vey very nice box , very nice work , finish is my kind of finish

-- <<<<<< I will not stop until I get it right. >>>>>>--

Nice save!

-- Bob A in NJ

I think you’re too hard on yourself. The box looks awesome! I see ideas there that I’d like to borrow.

-- New to the craft and loving every minute!

I would have never known there were problems. It looks great to me. Great job!

-- The tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goals, the tragedy of life lies in not having goals to reach for.

WOW That’s two big wows for me today. You are truly a master of your craft. BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL ! Be a proud “LumberJock”! I believe I sent you here 26 days ago … I’m very glad I did.

-- Odie, Confucius say, "He who laughs at one's self is BUTT of joke". http://woodstermangotwood.blogspot.com/ (my funny blog)

Very well done! Those dovetails look excellent.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

Dovetails rock! You did a great job, that’s one nice lookin’ box!

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

Love the finish – great box.

Looks great! The gift will be well-received.

-- I'm a wood magician... I can turn fine lumber into firewood before your very eyes! - http://www.woodworkersguide.com

Stanley, very nice looking box, I have to agree with the others, What the matter with the dovetails, they look great to me. Maybe if you’d post a couple of arrow’s, pointing to the problems, JUST KIDDING. Great Project, keep em coming, Love looking at them.

-- Your Brother in WoodWorking John, Pittsburgh , PA.

That’s a good looking box, I just really like the look of natural pine. It’s pretty cool how you left the knot right in the middle of the box’s back panel so when you open it, there’s a nice character of the wood smiling at you.

-- Thuan

Thanks for all the nice comments. Bruce was given the box today and seemed to appreciate it; along with all his other gifts he seemed a bit overwhelmed – I’ve just left him slightly drunk outside a curry house in Blackpool town centre.

The dovetails needed a lot of patching as it all went pear-shaped as I cut the pins. My marking knife would not stay into the tail sides as a marked the pins, therefore the latter were cut miles out. I have now bought a new marking knife and live in hope. If this fails I will revert to marking with a sharp mpencil and maybe adopting the teenage woodworker method of starting with the pins.

I generally use Rustins Danish Oil, which is available readily around here.

-- Stanley generally struggling