I haven’t posted any of my woodworking in a while. I do woodworking as a living as a cabinetmaker, so I tend to get a little burned out. Although I have been doing things in my shop, I don’t always share it. Sometimes creating a post with good pictures and description is a lot of work.
Here’s another one of my boxes. This is made from walnut and zebrawood. I carefully selected the walnut with a lot of straight grain to match the straight grain zebrawood. Both woods go well together with good contrast. I used satin lacquer as the finish, and lined the bottom with velvet in a ruby red color. I hinged the box with these simple stop hinges. The hinges have a built in stop to only open so far. No additional lid stays or chains are needed to support the lid, keeping the look clean.
This is a Christmas gift for my mother. One of many I’ve made for her over the years.
Starts with some simple veneer work. This bookmatched panel is made easy with these sequenced veneer packets. When cut into parts, it will be grain matched. So when looking at the front of the assembled box, the panels will match from left to right, up the front, across the top, and down the back of the box.
Centered groove sized to fit the zebrawood panels
Tenons on the table saw. Zero clearance auxiliary fence on miter gage for no tear-out results
Tenons sized for a perfect friction fit right off the saw
Parts for lid and four sides ready for assembly
Part sizes in perspective. These mullions are 1/2 x 1/2 x 2-3/4”
These rubber bands work great to keep everything held together while glue sets.
Box sides are then mitered using this dedicated sled. I like to use picture frame clamps to assemble boxes. Pictured here is the first dry fit right off the saw.
Close up of this first dry fit. Perfect tongue and groove and mitered corner
Kdc68, Beautiful box. Glad to see you again. On the other site you were one of my earliest sources of information, providing me advice on staining one of my first projects, a maple table around Jan , 2015.
