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With All Due Apologies:

Office Reorganization at home dictated that one cardboard-box full of papers be replaced with a real wooden chest. The only material on hand was scraps. The deadline has come with some of the work actually done.

The period piece is done in the Federal Bankruptcy style. The lower 98% represents the Poplar Vote. Due to gluten intolerances, the joined top couldn't use Breadboard Ends. Instead a campaign style attributed to General Buttress Buttress-Ghali was employed to keep the top flat. The top walnut pieces will bolt down the bowed wood, much as the owner bolts down his food. Joinery on the stinking carcass wasn't full-grade fine box joints, but more like downgraded AaA bonds. US houses may approve; Italian houses may Vito.

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Looks like over kill to me!:D

The corners appear to be square, the sides appear to be flat and there are no gaping holes. It looks full functional to me. Does it have a bottom?:rolleyes:

I like it! I'm partial to clean, simple lines. My peeve is that only a fellow woodworker can appreciate the effort it takes to make a "simple" box. My best projects have turned out to be the simplest in form.

I like it.

I want to go a step further with the scrap bin-scrap bin idea. I want to use up some of my scrap and make bins for my remaining scrap wood pieces to get rid of the pile on my floor and in cardboard boxes.

nuhobby wrote:With All Due Apologies:

The period piece is done in the Federal Bankruptcy style.

This is too funny I almost spit out my coffee.

No need to apologize. It's a fine box as others have stated.

fiatben wrote:I like it! I'm partial to clean, simple lines. My peeve is that only a fellow woodworker can appreciate the effort it takes to make a "simple" box. My best projects have turned out to be the simplest in form.

I can definitely relate to that!

Thanks all for your kind words.

I'm somewhat attached to the pine-top because that wood was from an Indianapolis mall trash-bin and had 1968 date-codes on it. I got a bunch of it in 2009 and occasionally clean some of it up with hand-planes. Each project using a wide plank has needed some form of "bow control" like the walnut bars I used here.

I did some chamfering on the walnut with the Strip Sander and decided to move it to my 'office' today.
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At the other side of the office is my very first Mark V project, started 5 years ago this week, done even before I had a bandsaw. I use that desk every day and I love having something not store-bought there.
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That desk still looks good!:)





Should we attach any significance to the shoe etc.?:rolleyes:

JPG40504 wrote:Should we attach any significance to the shoe etc.?:rolleyes:

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