| Project by Pete Santos | posted 172 days ago | 582 views | 4 times favorited | 6 comments |  |
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Some family friends had to say goodbye to thier precious little Bella-Josephine. I offered to make them an urn for her ashes.
The box is 6 inches wide, 4 inches tall, and 5 inches deep. Made of 5/8 inch Honduras Mahogany, stenciled letterings, plexiglass 4×6 picture insert. Used sanding sealer and two coats of clear gloss poly. The joints are just glued together long grain to long grain, the bottom is screwed on, there is a 5/8 piece of wood slightly smaller than the opening that is attached to the bottom of the cover. Very low tech stuff. I made the picture insert by running the boards over my table saw with the blade set to 3/16 in. high.
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Monte Pittman
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#1 posted 172 days ago
Very nice project. I am sure they loved it.
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a1Jim
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#2 posted 172 days ago
Well done .
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#3 posted 172 days ago
making a place for the picture, makes this box. great gift
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#4 posted 140 days ago
Very thoughtful gift. Good on you in the new year
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#5 posted 103 days ago
Very nice, I’m about to take on a project from a friends family as well and was asked to build them a box, they had asked me what the cost would be my reply was not to worry about cost it was the least I could do.
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#6 posted 103 days ago
A NICE THING TO DO AND WELL DONE.
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