Current fascinations w/wood

[justdraftn]

My wood fascination, at the present, is band saw boxes.
Here are some of the more recent:

This is an old piece of apple wood I pulled out of the fire wood pile.
It totally changed how I look at wood for boxes.  When I first cut it out, I thought 
w/pieces of the bark showing and the worm holes from the worms that killed the
tree, it was undesirable.  I went on and cut it out completely....then it dawned on me...
this is the totally unique character to this box.  The imperfections are literally 
the history and "patina" of this one box.  Now, as I eye ball wood for boxes, I look for
the imperfections to incoorperate into the box.

This box was lurking in a scrap piece of doug fir framing lumber.  I ripped it in half and 
laminated the pieces.  When I cut it out I was shocked at what I found.

This is a box created out of some old oak beam I got.  I left the front/back as they were,
well weathered.  The interior wood is beautiful.

 

This is another from the same piece of wood.

This is my latest "furniture" project.  A work table for my sanders.  This is just run of the 
mill framing studs from Lowes.  I built this table w/no metal.  No nails, screws, etc.
All the joints are lap joints pinned w/ 3/8" dowels.  The top is laminated 2x4 jointed w/ 3/8" dowels.

The top is attached w/ 3/4" dowels.   It is totally mobile.  I love it.

 

 

 

[Dan]

Awesome boxes and great job on the table.

[new2woodwrk]

Great projects! Thanks for sharing - love the boxes

[amazingkevin]

10 hours ago, justdraftn said:

My wood fascination, at the present, is band saw boxes.
Here are some of the more recent:

This is an old piece of apple wood I pulled out of the fire wood pile.
It totally changed how I look at wood for boxes.  When I first cut it out, I thought 
w/pieces of the bark showing and the worm holes from the worms that killed the
tree, it was undesirable.  I went on and cut it out completely....then it dawned on me...
this is the totally unique character to this box.  The imperfections are literally 
the history and "patina" of this one box.  Now, as I eye ball wood for boxes, I look for
the imperfections to incoorperate into the box.

This box was lurking in a scrap piece of doug fir framing lumber.  I ripped it in half and 
laminated the pieces.  When I cut it out I was shocked at what I found.

This is a box created out of some old oak beam I got.  I left the front/back as they were,
well weathered.  The interior wood is beautiful.

 

This is another from the same piece of wood.

This is my latest "furniture" project.  A work table for my sanders.  This is just run of the 
mill framing studs from Lowes.  I built this table w/no metal.  No nails, screws, etc.
All the joints are lap joints pinned w/ 3/8" dowels.  The top is laminated 2x4 jointed w/ 3/8" dowels.

The top is attached w/ 3/4" dowels.   It is totally mobile.  I love it.

 

 

 

you've got these down pat!

[meflick]

 Beautiful boxes. Thanks for sharing. Bandsaw boxes are on my want to try list.

Edited March 14, 2018 by meflick

[GPscroller]

Great work on all, thanks for the pics.

Jeff

[Scrolling Steve]

I really like boxes !...One of my goals for the year is to do one !

[jollyred]

Really great boxes.