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I’ve had 4 pieces of 5/4 black walnut (about 6-8” long) sitting around in the garage for months. I got them for $1 at Woodcraft in their cutoff bin. I’ve been trying to think of what to use them for and decided to make my wife a box. I just got Taunton’s Basic Box Making last week and really wanted to try out those mitered keys.
It involved resawing the black walnut and a QS white oak board I have laying around, and that was a first for me too. Since I don’t have a bandsaw (I guess that’s the best way to resaw?), I used the table saw. Kind of scary when doing it the first time…
It only took a few cuts on the table saw after the resawing, but I still managed to screw it up a little. I wanted to speed up mitering the edges of the smaller end pieces. So I stacked them and then ran them over the blade. Well, that meant that the blade went into the top piece at a different depth than the bottom piece. At least it didn’t go all the way through!
I fixed the sawing mistake by inlaying the groove with a sliver of lace wood.
The bottom of the box is 1/4” plywood from a previous project.
Now that I think of it, this whole project consisted of wood that I had laying around as scraps. Even though I bought the QS white oak and black walnut from the Woodcraft cutoff bins, I had only meant to use it as practice wood anyway.
I used 2 coats of Minwax’s Pecan oil finish and 2 rounds of sanding at 400 grit.
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5 comments so far
Bigbuck
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posted 106 days ago
Looks good and it sounds like you learned quite a bit at the same time.
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thetimberkid
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posted 106 days ago
Great job!
Thanks for the post
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ShannonRogers
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posted 105 days ago
Way to go Rick! I firmly believe that true craftsmanship is learning how to cover up the mistakes. Great work on the unintentional inlay. It adds uniqueness to this box.
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SplinteredBoard
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posted 105 days ago
Thanks everyone! I’ve heard time and again that ‘fine woodworking’ is really the fine art of covering up your mistakes. That’s exactly what I tried to do here.
It helped a little that the white oak key and lacewood inlay formed a cross, because my wife was feeling really bad about missing church yesterday. At least it raised her spirits a little to see a present with a cross on it…
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Douglas Krueger
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posted 103 days ago
Nice first box, your wife will cherish thisr first labor of love for years. You can reminder here that woodworking is next to religion, just ask Joseph.
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