Peter Pedisich
11-12-2013, 12:34 AM
Shop time has been scarce since late June, so recently to keep my sanity I forced myself back out to the shop to keep my hands moving.
Modeled after several Japanese Carpenter's toolboxes with sliding lids I found on the web, like Lost Art Press blog, Giant Cypress blog, and others by image search. Made a bunch of mistakes along the way, a little rusty with a chisel and saw as well. Things many of us deal with when shop time is few and far between. I also tried to keep it a little imperfect, and avoid my normal tendency to get mired in trying to achieve perfection. So I tried to work briskly and carefully, without worrying about every saw cut and chamfer being exactly uniform. It felt much better working this way, and I'm still happy with the way it turned out, not too precious - meant to get banged around in it's life and look the better for it.
100% hand tools, cut nails, brass screws, Old Brown Glue, white pine 1x boards with no finish.
I gave it to a family member as a gift, after adding in some tools from Harry J Epstein.
Thanks,
Pete
Japanese Tool Box (https://picasaweb.google.com/102981472942866443292/JapaneseCarpenterSToolbox?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCPG_y8Lyuq-u-QE&feat=directlink)
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-9UyQ2UkgvPU/Un6DdSSdmZI/AAAAAAAACik/M0fF-Xe1U9A/s800/IMG_0770.JPG
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-xBNtu5siCVU/Un6Dc6RPAJI/AAAAAAAACiU/4-qxnHFYKdo/s800/IMG_0772.JPG
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-FxIMoT8oTwI/Un6DfUkluMI/AAAAAAAACkE/xvTbWHnq26g/s800/IMG_0773.JPG
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/--fxPRugdh88/Un6DfXNNFyI/AAAAAAAACis/wctzNjpU1ek/s800/IMG_0774.JPG
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-3u41WR-oJzU/Un6DkTgAb2I/AAAAAAAACjs/HIaB4cKPUbE/s800/IMG_0780.jpg
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-kBXto6fUzqM/Un6DkeahGII/AAAAAAAACjY/P9soa_6AG1E/s800/IMG_0781.JPG
Modeled after several Japanese Carpenter's toolboxes with sliding lids I found on the web, like Lost Art Press blog, Giant Cypress blog, and others by image search. Made a bunch of mistakes along the way, a little rusty with a chisel and saw as well. Things many of us deal with when shop time is few and far between. I also tried to keep it a little imperfect, and avoid my normal tendency to get mired in trying to achieve perfection. So I tried to work briskly and carefully, without worrying about every saw cut and chamfer being exactly uniform. It felt much better working this way, and I'm still happy with the way it turned out, not too precious - meant to get banged around in it's life and look the better for it.
100% hand tools, cut nails, brass screws, Old Brown Glue, white pine 1x boards with no finish.
I gave it to a family member as a gift, after adding in some tools from Harry J Epstein.
Thanks,
Pete
Japanese Tool Box (https://picasaweb.google.com/102981472942866443292/JapaneseCarpenterSToolbox?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCPG_y8Lyuq-u-QE&feat=directlink)
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-9UyQ2UkgvPU/Un6DdSSdmZI/AAAAAAAACik/M0fF-Xe1U9A/s800/IMG_0770.JPG
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-xBNtu5siCVU/Un6Dc6RPAJI/AAAAAAAACiU/4-qxnHFYKdo/s800/IMG_0772.JPG
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-FxIMoT8oTwI/Un6DfUkluMI/AAAAAAAACkE/xvTbWHnq26g/s800/IMG_0773.JPG
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/--fxPRugdh88/Un6DfXNNFyI/AAAAAAAACis/wctzNjpU1ek/s800/IMG_0774.JPG
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-3u41WR-oJzU/Un6DkTgAb2I/AAAAAAAACjs/HIaB4cKPUbE/s800/IMG_0780.jpg
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-kBXto6fUzqM/Un6DkeahGII/AAAAAAAACjY/P9soa_6AG1E/s800/IMG_0781.JPG