Doug Duffield
04-30-2018, 4:39 PM
I have spent the last month in Texas helping my daughter-in-law settle things after my son’s death. She is from Brazil and has a hard time understanding legal forms, but then don’t we all! She asked me to help her kids build a box for my son’s ashes. The selection of tools that were in the garage left much to be desired for a woodworker, so I used a hand saw and sharpened a couple of chisels and went to work.
The box is constructed with dove tails and the oldest child whacked the wood out after I cut the sides of the tails. His wife wanted “Jason is home” engraved on the box, but I didn’t have any tools that would work on oak, so I bent wire into the words, soldered and painted them black. All in all I think it came out fairly good. His wife showed the box to a friend and she asked me to build one for her sister’s ashes.
I carved a daisy from basswood I inlayed it in oak, trimmed it with cedar and stained it. The finish on both boxes is Danish oil.
The box is constructed with dove tails and the oldest child whacked the wood out after I cut the sides of the tails. His wife wanted “Jason is home” engraved on the box, but I didn’t have any tools that would work on oak, so I bent wire into the words, soldered and painted them black. All in all I think it came out fairly good. His wife showed the box to a friend and she asked me to build one for her sister’s ashes.
I carved a daisy from basswood I inlayed it in oak, trimmed it with cedar and stained it. The finish on both boxes is Danish oil.