Making a bespoke wooden box.

[Retired]

Hi,

I would like to thank Joe once again for taking the time to add the missing pictures for me. Great job Joe.

It took all morning to locate these pictures as they are spread over many CD's and also in an external hard drive but the thread is hopefully better for them.

Just for interest Josh and to show examples of my work made entirely from offcuts I'm pleased to add a few pictures. I made two each lamp and table from offcuts of ordinary joinery grade softwood (pine). These cost nothing for materials and would be an ideal introduction to using a bandsaw and lathe for you. The construction is simple; the table top is made of biscuit jointed planed boards; the top is secured by a round mortise and tenon joint; an under-piece for the top and feet are drilled using a large bit the column has a tenon turned at each end to fit into the drilled holes both being simply glued. The feet are easily profiled with a bandsaw or hand tools.

Both lamps are turned and finished on the lathe to any desired profile; they are long hole bored to accept the round two core flex and plastic lamp holders are used for safety eliminating an earth wire should metal holders have been chosen. Both table and lamp are easy to make and look lovely each side of the bed. I made these many years ago and they still look as good as new; they were finished with Wickes varnish. The wall paneling is also to my own design but I actually spent money buying the timber for this and machining the bead moulding; the dentil moulding is simply individual wooden blocks sanded on the faceplate sander of my giant Dominion lathe when I owned the lathe and glued into position one by one; this detail is also carried around the corners of the ceiling as a wooden cornice.

I find such work most satisfying and of course most of it costs nothing or very little; our bungalow is full of such items.

Kind regards, Col.

Here are two of the pictures showing the items I made plus another of the box showing how the box sides look after using the router jig to cut all the comb joints.

Kind regards, Col.