The Woodshop Shed

Ironic Box

Furnished content.
(from Lumberjocks.com)


On the 14th of this month I posted a left over box – The left overs was from the box in picture #1. There's not too much to say about the larger box other than the fact that I don't do schetchup or even a hand drawing of a project. I just start cutting and hacking away usually with the intent of saving as much precious wood as I can.
That ususlly involves resawing a piece so that I can use all of the wood instead of planeing it down to a given size. In this case the dims were dictated by what was left after the resaw. As mentioned with the left over box that what it was, left over wood from this box.
The only reason I made the box to begin with was to shelter the hinge mortising jig I got for quadrant hinges from Rockler. In my frugal attempt at saving lumber I ended up with a box wall thickness that wasn't thick enough for a quadrant hinge – thus the IRONIC label
So I ended up with a couple solid brass hinges that I had in storage for 10 years or so, even had brass screws.
The box is curly Koa and 13 1/4” x 10 1/4” x 2 7/8” high and it has the 12ga twisted wire encased in resin on all 4 walls. I also put some imitation leather on the inside for tool comfort. Again, I had my local graphics shop make a copy and install the Rockler box top, another $20 well spent.
BTW – Linda's question was “you're going to leave that in the shop ?” Guess whare it's going to live until I can sneak it out to my shop ? (on the table with lamps, bowls, and all things nice so visitors can get a glimpseof it)
Thanks for looking and I'm sure somebody will remind me to at least make a pencil drawing with a plan of attack on my next project.

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