Michael Ray Smith
09-23-2013, 3:27 PM
I recently picked up some post office box doors to turn into coin banks and such. Here's the first one I finished. Nothing special from a woodworking point of view, but I think it looks pretty cool if I do say so myself. Just a mitered box with the bottom of the box -- or the back, once it's turned on end -- in a rabbet. Then a mitered frame on the open side of the box (my wife's suggestion -- she thought it would dress it up a little more than just leaving the edges alone) before attaching the door. It rests on a couple of lengths of square stock glued across the bottom. Some green felt on the inside, just on the bottom. It was also my first attempt at French polishing anything -- which I'll definitely keep doing on other projects. I like the results and all that polishing is sort of therapeutic.
I found an old thread discussing this sort of bank with a comment from Jim Koepke observing that they're a little front-heavy. He's right. For the next one I'm making -- which happens to be with the next larger size door, a No. 2 -- I'm going to lean the front of it backwards by 10 degrees.
Mike
I found an old thread discussing this sort of bank with a comment from Jim Koepke observing that they're a little front-heavy. He's right. For the next one I'm making -- which happens to be with the next larger size door, a No. 2 -- I'm going to lean the front of it backwards by 10 degrees.
Mike