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Well, I finally worked on the box again. I didn't realize how long it has been. The holdup was needing to get some more Black Walnut. My wife had a scroll saw project that she wanted to use Black Walnut so we went and got some.

So yesterday I glued up the sandwich for the lid and today I got it made. All that is left is finishing.

Nice work John. Beautiful joinery !
Paul

masonsailor2 wrote:Nice work John. Beautiful joinery !
Paul

Thanks Paul. The I Box does an almost perfect job when dialed in properly.

How long did it take to learn? I've had mine a couple of years and have not yet used it except to play around with it! This weeken for sure. Just used a gift certificate at my local hardwood store. Got some nice Honduran Mahagony, some cherry and some dloodwood. Three boards, $153.00!

What a gorgeous box John. Nice work. I may have to spring for one of those jigs. Although I kind of like doing it like I have been doing it.

Beautiful!

ChrisNeilan wrote:How long did it take to learn? I've had mine a couple of years and have not yet used it except to play around with it! This weeken for sure. Just used a gift certificate at my local hardwood store. Got some nice Honduran Mahagony, some cherry and some dloodwood. Three boards, $153.00!

I just bought 9 BF of 4/4 walnut (10' X 11") and 12 BF of 4/4 Maple (12' X 12"). $170.90. The Walnut was $10.73/BF and the Maple was $5.25/BF.

As far as learning it was pretty simple. I watched the video a few times and then had the printed instructions in front of me when I first played with it. If you remember Charlses challenge from my other thread about an 18" long joint with 1/4" pins, that was the third time I tried it. The box in this thread was the next time.

I also bought the package with the Forrest box joint blades. There is nothing better. Equal, maybe but nothing better than Forrest IMO.

More then very nice John!! Nice contrasting wood and clean, crisp lines and joints. What is an I box, or is that the name of a jig for cutting the box joints? Rockler has one for the router, I am not sure if it can be used on a TS with the miter gauge, inconjuction with a dado blade.

CN, my wood store is charging $7.00 for 4/4 BW, and anything over 10" wide, gets a 10 or 20% Wide Board up charge.

rjent wrote:What a gorgeous box John. Nice work. I may have to spring for one of those jigs. Although I kind of like doing it like I have been doing it.

Beautiful!

Thank you! The I Box works very well and for me the learning curve was short. I would recommend it to everyone.

ERLover wrote:More then very nice John!! Nice contrasting wood and clean, crisp lines and joints. What is an I box, or is that the name of a jig for cutting the box joints? Rockler has one for the router, I am not sure if it can be used on a TS with the miter gauge, inconjuction with a dado blade.

CN, my wood store is charging $7.00 for 4/4 BW, and anything over 10" wide, gets a 10 or 20% Wide Board up charge.

It is an Incra I Box jig made for the table saw. It comes with miter bars for standard table saws and for Shopsmith.

http://www.incra.com/precision_fences-ibox.html

I use it with the Forrest box joint blade set.

Similar to this?
http://www.rockler.com/rockler-router-t ... -joint-jig
I am not a dado guy, when I need dado work I use my router table and some times in conjunction with the table saw regular blade. I just never got into dado blades, there fine tuning for width. I am just more comfortable on the router table with the correct bit.