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So this is a gift for my brother. Its a pencil box, but conveniently it also holds bars of Green and Blacks chocolate. This was my first time of building a box, and first for making dovetails.

I am pleased with how it came out especially as the only electricity used in the production was an electric light. Only hand tools used.

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Full credit for the design to Paul Sellers, who has a tutorial for making these. I like his videos but tend to watch at 1.5x speed. In case you are not familiar, you can watch it here: https://woodworkingmasterclasses.com/vi ... ject-info/
 
droogs":3t6756eb said:
Nice 1, you gotta be happy with that
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I certainly am.

I enjoyed making it immensely. I would have liked a bandsaw to resaw the timber as that was not so much fun by hand. Planing and making the joints and runners was the fun part.
 
timothyedoran":31z49a94 said:
I enjoyed making it immensely. I would have liked a bandsaw to resaw the timber as that was not so much fun by hand. Planing and making the joints and runners was the fun part.
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Nice job for a first time out on dovetails and box making. If I could add just a couple of very minor points; firstly the edges of the chamfers on the lid have lost some 'crispness', probably caused by the over zealous use of sandpaper. Secondly, the finger pull is notoriously hard to do in a soft material like pine as you need a really, really sharp gouge to make the cut(s) and once made, it's very difficult if not impossible to sand the depression afterwards.

This is a dovetailed 'dinosaur box' I made in pitch pine for my son when he was about 6yo, so well over 25 years ago...

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...which was made for his colouring pencils at middle school and as you can see, it's still in use! :lol: - Rob
 
Woodbloke":mi2hwaev said:
timothyedoran":mi2hwaev said:
I enjoyed making it immensely. I would have liked a bandsaw to resaw the timber as that was not so much fun by hand. Planing and making the joints and runners was the fun part.
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Nice job for a first time out on dovetails and box making. If I could add just a couple of very minor points; firstly the edges of the chamfers on the lid have lost some 'crispness', probably caused by the over zealous use of sandpaper. Secondly, the finger pull is notoriously hard to do in a soft material like pine as you need a really, really sharp gouge to make the cut(s) and once made, it's very difficult if not impossible to sand the depression afterwards.

This is a dovetailed 'dinosaur box' I made in pitch pine for my son when he was about 6yo, so well over 25 years ago...



...which was made for his colouring pencils at middle school and as you can see, it's still in use! :lol: - Rob
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Hi Rob

Thanks for the critique, I agree with you. Thank you for wording it in such a kind and considered way. Next time, I think I will not sand the lid as it was lovely and crisp before. The smoothness from the plane was perfectly adequate. Although I like the crispness, over time that would gets eroded to a smoother shape with soft pine?

You are right too about the finger pull. Paul Sellers made it look easy, but that's what experts do.

I love your version, especially the dinosaur presumably by you, and bits of doodling presumably by your son.
 
Congratulations, Tim. That really is an excellent little project, with a nice result. Making a box by hand is more difficult than people think, and yours has turned out really well.
 
Mike G":1zeurae6 said:
Congratulations, Tim. That really is an excellent little project, with a nice result. Making a box by hand is more difficult than people think, and yours has turned out really well.
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Hi Mike. Thanks for the kind words.
 
I remember watching Paul Sellers make this, I really like his style of teaching. For a first attempt at a box and dovetails that has turned out brilliantly.
 
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