Small Boxes

[Perry Holbrook]

I spent the day taking photos of all my small boxes both old and new desaigns for a planned brochure. Thought you may be interested. Most are wood but some are copper, steel and the last ones are clay that haven't been glazed yet.

Perry

Sorry, something happened to my link.

OK, I'll try again. Looks like when I made the files small enough for here, the quality is not the best. Anyway, you get the idea.

[Perry Holbrook]

Here's the rest of them.

Perry

[Jerry Todd]

Wow!! Those are cool. How small are they? Kind of hard to determine the size without a scale.

[Bernie Weishapl]

Perry those are awesome. Are they as small as they look? Great work.

[Jason Tuinstra]

Perry, what a great little assortment of boxes. Very creative.

[Vaughn McMillan]

Very nice work, Perry. You've definitely got a signature look, yet each piece is unique and stands out from the others.

- Vaughn

[Bob Noles]

Perry,

What a great collection of boxes. I have become somewhat of a box admirer as of late and your collection was a treasure chest of a find :D

Thanks for sharing them.

[Michael Stafford]

Great little boxes, Perry. I am the proud owner of a Holbrook and it looks like I need to add some to my collection. Good stuff!!!!;)

[Perry Holbrook]

Sorry again about the quality of the photos. I'm not really sure what is wrong.

As far as sizes, almost all of them will fit into a 4x4x4 gift box. They were all shot with the same settings so they are proportional. The smallest one is the little turned one (about 2x2) the red top band saw box on is probably the largest at about 5x2.

Thanks for looking, now to figure out if there's something wrong with several hours worth of photography.

Perry

[Jeff Sudmeier]

Perry, they look really great and original. Good luck with your brochure!

[Shelley Bolster]

That is a wonderful display of imagination and talent Perry. Good luck with straightening out your imaging problems.

[Jim Becker]

Perry, I really like the interesting variations of the footed boxes. Very nice pull-through in the line!

On your photos, it looks like you kicked the compression up big-time. I don't know what software you are using, but I generally reduce the photos to 640 pixels wide in Photoshop Elements, hit them one time with the "Sharpen" filter and then save-as with a quality setting of 3-5, depending on what the resulting file size will be. This provides sharp pictures for web and email display at under 100kb file sizes.

[Scott Banbury]

Perry,

Your material use is stunning and the designs are very distinguished.

How do you cut those little finger joints?

[Perry Holbrook]

Scott, about 15 years ago at a WW show in Charlotte, I fell for a guys gizmo on cutting small finger joints on an angle. Used it a few times, and filed it away thinking it may be good for something someday.

It's basically a box joint jig but the back board is on an angle, so it cuts the groves on an angle. Works OK but figureing out how wide the stock should be to get the spacing to work out evenly and where to start the indexing on those 3 and 6 sided boxes was not easy.

If those sell well, I'll probably buy an inexpensive table top TS and just leave it set up for those.

Hope that answers your question. -Perry

[Bruce Shiverdecker]

Very interesting stuff. Good Lookin', too.

Bruce

[Brian Hooey]

This must mean you're ready for the show. Looks like we're just a few booths away. The boxes look great. They should be a hit (again).

This is my first post. I saw your name and couldn't resist.

[Perry Holbrook]

Hey Brian, welcome to SMC. Be sure to do a formal introduction to everyone at some point and post a few pix of your work. See you in Philly.

Perry

[Chris Barton]

very nice work!:D