Xmas Presents to Family Members

[Ralph Okonieski]

Made a few boxes for parents and grandparents for Xmas. The three boxes are different. All are made from walnut and finished with about six coats of shellac. There were a few first experiences with these:

- first projects with walnut. Love working with it !
- made a jig for the box joints since had never cut them before. Worked pretty well. Took a while to get it adjusted but worked well.
- boxes were first also.

This is a simple DVD box. Put DVD's of my children in it for the grandparents.

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Number 2 is a slightly more complicated DVD box with family DVD's for the other grandparents.

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g45/rokonies/DVD%20Boxes/th_100_1864.jpg (http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g45/rokonies/DVD%20Boxes/100_1864.jpg) http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g45/rokonies/DVD%20Boxes/th_100_1863.jpg (http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g45/rokonies/DVD%20Boxes/100_1863.jpg)

[Ralph Okonieski]

Another pic of the 2nd DVD box.
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g45/rokonies/DVD%20Boxes/th_100_1862.jpg (http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g45/rokonies/DVD%20Boxes/100_1862.jpg)

The third box was a small box for my grandmother for holding crochet needles. She is 99 and stll very, very clear mentally. The lid just sits on top, no hinges.

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g45/rokonies/Curio%20Box/th_100_1882.jpg (http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g45/rokonies/Curio%20Box/100_1882.jpg) http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g45/rokonies/Curio%20Box/th_100_1879.jpg (http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g45/rokonies/Curio%20Box/100_1879.jpg) http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g45/rokonies/Curio%20Box/th_100_1878.jpg (http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g45/rokonies/Curio%20Box/100_1878.jpg) http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g45/rokonies/Curio%20Box/th_100_1872.jpg (http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g45/rokonies/Curio%20Box/100_1872.jpg)

[Dick Latshaw]

Very nicely done. Did you cut the box joints with a table saw or with a router table?

[Corey Hallagan]

Excellent work, great looking boxes. Very clean box joints!

Corey

[John Sherrod]

Beautiful work. I bet they loved them. Good choice on walnut. It is a gorgeous wood.

[Ralph Okonieski]

The joints were cut on the table saw using the Freud SD508 dado blade.

Thanks for the comments !