Here are a few more boxes I've done in the past few months. The first two are my own "designs." Both are walnut and maple.
The first in particular is rather basic. It was essentially an experiment to try out a miter lock router bit, which worked out pretty well. I gave it a more reddish color with colored watco danish oil before applying minwax wipe-on poly and carnauba wax. The brass feet are by Brusso.
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This one was a birthday gift for my mother and my first try at using a box joint router bit, which worked pretty well. I did it with no plan in mind other than using the box joint bit and the inlay. The molding that serves as the feet was a strip I cut from some scrap maple with the TS55 then routed the profile on the router table. It's rabbeted onto a piece of walnut that makes up the box bottom. Both these boxes used Suede-tex on the interior. Pretty easy to apply. I also used cylinder hinges on both boxes, which have the virtue of being extremely easy to install.
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The next two are designs from another Doug Stowe book, Creating Beautiful Boxes with Inlay Techniques.
The first is a triangular box, which is not practical at all, but does look nice. Walnut and Zebrawood. Shellac, then crystalac clear grain filler, ceramithane, carnauba wax. In case anyone's wondering, I use shellac first whenever I use water-based finishes. Because if you don't, those nice colored woods turn a fantastic green color that really looks great!
Something about the alkaline ph of water-based finishes reacting with the wood. This box marked my first use of festool platin sanding discs between final thin coats of ceramithane. I'd previously used the Beall Buff system with felt and lambskin pads on the Rotex after finishing, but the use of platin pads allowed me to skip to first (and by far most tiring) step of buffing with tripoli compound. I think it's visible in the photos that I achieved a pretty nice surface.
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Finally, a stamp dispenser. Made from some scrap maple and inlay. Used a rubber washer in a groove cut in the lid to keep it from opening on its own. Could have used a little more sanding, but I wanted to finish it in one evening.
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The first in particular is rather basic. It was essentially an experiment to try out a miter lock router bit, which worked out pretty well. I gave it a more reddish color with colored watco danish oil before applying minwax wipe-on poly and carnauba wax. The brass feet are by Brusso.
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This one was a birthday gift for my mother and my first try at using a box joint router bit, which worked pretty well. I did it with no plan in mind other than using the box joint bit and the inlay. The molding that serves as the feet was a strip I cut from some scrap maple with the TS55 then routed the profile on the router table. It's rabbeted onto a piece of walnut that makes up the box bottom. Both these boxes used Suede-tex on the interior. Pretty easy to apply. I also used cylinder hinges on both boxes, which have the virtue of being extremely easy to install.
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The next two are designs from another Doug Stowe book, Creating Beautiful Boxes with Inlay Techniques.
The first is a triangular box, which is not practical at all, but does look nice. Walnut and Zebrawood. Shellac, then crystalac clear grain filler, ceramithane, carnauba wax. In case anyone's wondering, I use shellac first whenever I use water-based finishes. Because if you don't, those nice colored woods turn a fantastic green color that really looks great!
Something about the alkaline ph of water-based finishes reacting with the wood. This box marked my first use of festool platin sanding discs between final thin coats of ceramithane. I'd previously used the Beall Buff system with felt and lambskin pads on the Rotex after finishing, but the use of platin pads allowed me to skip to first (and by far most tiring) step of buffing with tripoli compound. I think it's visible in the photos that I achieved a pretty nice surface.[attachthumb=5]
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Finally, a stamp dispenser. Made from some scrap maple and inlay. Used a rubber washer in a groove cut in the lid to keep it from opening on its own. Could have used a little more sanding, but I wanted to finish it in one evening.
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I dig that.
all that work for nothing! well they still look good though, I'm just very anal 
