Shaker Oval Boxes

Beautiful boxes! Nice sewing machine, too.

Lew

oooh very cool how they rap around.

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

sweet, nice job!

-- Dennis Zongker

They look like they’re sitting still to me…

Seriously—lived for 6 years near “Shakertown” in central Kentucky. Love these boxes—I’ll have to check out that website. Thanks for posting!!

-- There's no tool like an old tool...

Beautiful boxes. I need to get my kit out and build it. I have been waiting for about five years. I guess it is about time to do it. That sounds like a good one-day project on a cool day this fall.

-- -- Rob Hix, King George, VA

Timbo; I made 5 a couple of years ago. Our Mason Dixon Woodworkers club is having a Shaker Box Class the last weekend of this month. We can make the oval boxes or the handled baskets. I’ll probably go for the handled baskets.

I bought the patterns and tacks from the Shaker Box people also but I’ve not cut up any wood yet to make them. This year we are using cherry wood.

Rob it’s a two day job. You steam or heat bend the wood and then let it dry overnight and then finish the boxes the next day.

Timbo: I just noticed that your bands go to the left, I always thought that the Shaker Boxes went to the right. Great looking boxes and nice birds eye.

What sizes did you build. I think we are building size 1 to 5 this year. We have this class every year and we can take 10 people for the class.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

Another great looking project. Well done. Karson, does it make a difference which way the bands go? Just curious because I have never paid that much attention to them. Maybe I can find a class close to me to learn to make them.

-- A man can never have enough tools

Beautiful boxes

-- jeanmarc manosque france