Latest Curve in the Learning Road

   




















 On Wednesday I descended in to the basement workshop with a plan.  I had been going to make a Box Joint Jig like the one from the Router Workshop for sometime now.  Months actually, in truth I bought the 1/2 Baltic Birch at last year's Kitchener Wood show, like about 12 months.
   
   Anyway, better late than never. 
   
   I will spare this blog's readers the full story of broken routers and blue air. ( you can get the whole story at blogthetoolstore.blogspot.com, if you want).


  You can see the corners of the poplar box that I made using the box joint jig. The jig is set up for 1/4 cuts, I am going to experiment with 3/8 and see if I can control the cut along the 1/4 guide. If it doesn't work, I'll make a 3/8 jig too.


  I made about four sets of joints before I got the hang of setting the jig up and now I think it will be fast and easy.  In the course of the day's adventures I lost my 1/4 brass spacer bar.  Such a pain, I use those spacer bars all the time.


 The colour of the box is sort of interesting, it is straight orange shellac.  It is a very old fashioned looking colour.

finished knitting needle box

I like the aniline stains though when dissolved in alcohol  instead of water the colour seemed to darken.

More Tallow Boxes

It would seem that once I hit upon something I like, I do it over and over again. (eating ice cream comes to mind). These are two views of some of the "tallow boxes" I have made recently.

The front box is butternut and oak.

The two behind are made of poplar and painted. I call them Princess boxes because one is gold and purple and the other one that looks green is really peacock blue in good light.

The butternut boxes are for sale at Spencer's Mercantile on Locke St. in Hamilton Ontario.

The Princess boxes will go to Princesses I know for Christmas