The Woodshop Shed

Curved lid box

Furnished content.
(from Lumberjocks.com)


I chose this plan from an old Woodsmith magazine because I thought the curved lid would look nice with some curly maple I had leftover.
This box is a relatively easy project except for the fact that I've been freestyling bandsaw boxes so much lately that my router table and dado blade have become foreign to me. I wasn't enjoying the build process all that much because of it but I had a feeling that the maple and sapele were figured enough that if I hung in there it would be worth finishing.
The rounded top was hand planed and I used dowels to fasten the sapele sides. A coat of Danish oil and wax to finish.
My local wood supplier had sapele in the cut off bin so I picked up a few pieces ….I really like the look and workability of this wood. I think I'll be incorporating it into some upcoming projects.

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