Sonic the Hedgehog, spinning saw blade, or Native American Basket--You decide

Nice box and nice workmanship.

-- "A goal without a plan is a wish."

You are out of control !! LOL
Another fine looking project.
I like the recess for the circle closure on the lid, nice touch :-)

Lisa

-- Imagination rules the world. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte ~ http://quiltedwood.com

Your box caught my eye. My wife is on her third quilt this year and I never gave using quilt block designs fir wood patterns a thought. Your box is a beautiful piece of craftsmanship. I am going to look at the rest of your projects.

-- Lee~"If the women don't find you handsome, at least they ought to find you handy"~ Red Green

To dustbunny: Maybe I can find a 12-step program :)

This is beautiful.

Nice. I like it a lot.

I can relate with getting geometric designs like that to all line up. The miniscule errors just compound when you use so many pieces. Cutting boards are more forgiving because you can fill up the gaps with glue, and end-grain swells up to fill the voids.

Keep it up,
Steve

-- -- I'm no rocket surgeon

My secret to lining up the pattern…..
A square.
I mark a 90 deg cross line through the center,
Clamp my square to the lines which divide the layout into quarters.
Then I glue and press the pieces into the square.
Let that dry, then use a straight edge on the remaining lines one quarter at a time
using the dried section edge as the other edge of the 90.

If this is unclear I can post pics…

Lisa

-- Imagination rules the world. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte ~ http://quiltedwood.com

Try a pentagon if you want to sharpen your cutting skills

-- Dreaming patterns

Either way it is a very well made and designed box.

-- Mike, American in Norway

Okay Grace123 here are the pics from todays first quadrant glue up.

Clamped the square to the lines -

Pressed the pieces into place -

Then removed and placed the square for the second glue up -

And so on….
You may need to remove the glue along the edges with a chisel or razor blade before laying down your second quadrant as the glue does begin to dry on the edges as you glue up. You want to ensure that the wood pieces will mate up and not be held apart by dry glue. Is it perfect…..NO, due to small variances in the cuts of the pieces the alignment may still be off a bit. It does help keep everything from sliding around though.

Edit- I put clear tape on my square to keep it clean :-)

Hope this is helpful,

Lisa

-- Imagination rules the world. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte ~ http://quiltedwood.com

Oh Thanks a million!!! This is exactly what I needed. And as I was reading, I wonder how you kept your square clean, but read far enough down and got the comment about the clear tape. I am really motivated to try this.

PS—Are you in lots of snow with Nemo? I am in winter storm Orco, but it so far has been just a little bit of snow—absolutely nothing to worry about.

I don’t put glue on the edge that is against the square.
The only glue that gets on it is the squeeze out.

Nemo left 24” here. Not looking forward to Orco !!

Lisa

-- Imagination rules the world. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte ~ http://quiltedwood.com

This reminds me that I promised to do a blog on stick work which I never did.

PROTECT YOUR SQUARE BY EDGING IT WITH MASKING TAPE OR PUT SOME CLEAR WRAP AROUND IT.

-- Mike, American in Norway

IIIIIIII LLLLIIIIIIIIIKKKKKKEEEEEE IIIIIITTTTT!!!!!!
Great Job!!!

-- Robert B. Sabina, Ohio.....