Pencil boxes
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In efforts to control the ever expanding pile of off cuts, I made 8 pencil boxes. I resawed and planned 3/4 stock into 5/16″. All are 8×4 spline miter. The height of the boxes are in between 1 1/4- 1 3/4, it depended on what I had available. Wood it’s aspen, pine, curly maple and cherry with some figure on the lid. Finished with Danish oil and shellac. One curly maple box was dyed with a brown mahogany tint and the cherry boxes were finished with a ruby shellac to give it a warmer tone.
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You must be logged in to view attached files.9 September 2015 at 11:05 am #130240Great idea for scrap. I see a bunch of these in my future.
Please take a pic with one of the tops off so we can see inside. They look very nice. Thanks,
10 September 2015 at 1:56 am #130260Nice assortment of boxes, Dan. And the timbers look really great!
For some reason, I can’t see the text of the first post in any forum topic, so I don’t know what you said about them.
@mattmcgrane That’s so weird! I know I wrote about the boxes some.
Dimensions 8 x 4 x 1.5, approximately 5/16″ stock. I used what I had on hand, so some are taller and some are shorter. I resawed and planned the boards. I was thinking small boxes like this really need not to be clunky. These were simple mitered boxes, cut using a miter box. and I added splines for decoration and added strength. There are rabbets to accept the lid and a grove to accept a piece of plywood for the bottom. Two types of lids, one has a 5/8″ finger hole. The other is a solid top and the underneath has a rabbet at the ends, so when pressure is applied at one end the other end lifts up. The lumber used from left to right is, pine, aspen, cherry and curly maple. Cherry is my favorite. All boxes were finished using shellac. The light colored boxes were finished with Zinsser seal coat and clear wax, the cherry and dyed maple were finished with dewaxed ruby shellac and brown furniture wax.
Thanks for looking!!
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