Making 55 Keepsake Boxes and What I Learned Along the Way
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- Опубліковано 8 лип 2024
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One thing I forgot to mention in the video is that there will be different stages of these builds that feel like you’re making no progress. Milling material and cutting joinery feels like you’ve done something but sanding, masking, and cutting splines can feel like you’re in quicksand. These are the parts of the build where I felt it important to break things up a bit.
good stuff! high production is not fun in a tight space. porting that wood around will never be fun. for an idea or two...can you cut the grooves before mitering? might save some time. cutting splines, you might want to double up the stock to cut 2 or 4 pieces at once.
I love these boxes. They turned out great. What a great find on the doors!
Thanks for taking the time to make the video, especially considering the amount of time you had to spend making the boxes themselves. Very interesting to see your process and the excellent result.
As some one who has both run a full production cabinet shop and getting back into the business on a now much smaller scale I enjoyed this video as it showed some of the other challenges in woodworking beyond just making the items. Keep up the great work.
greetings from Riverview, NB Canada!
great video!
I appreciate the "real life" advice in terms of time management and its impact on efficiency.
5:40 I love using a magnetic block as a stop on the table saw!
Nice boxes by the way!
Omg, I just love little box's! Those were the bomb. Good job bro!
Creative and beautiful. Well done!
My uncle and I did a project like this when I was a kid. The big difference was we made them a bit deeper, then put feet on the bottom (with the bank door as the front instead of the top) and cut a slot in the top for them to be used as a coin bank.
Yup, that's a good idea. I had considered that but preferred the lower profile. Maybe next batch!
I really like how you shared the struggles and methods you used to overcome them. Great video!
Thanks a lot Ian!
Dang, a lot of good info in here for battling those mundane tasks! Respect for getting through all 55 and keeping everything dialed in!
Thanks Shaun! I forgot to mention I was making a batch of 10 end grain cutting boards throughout the build as well. That helped give me a break from the boxes somewhat.
I picked up one of these doors at a yard sale recently. Thanks for the inspiration for what to do with it!
Great little boxes. I received a similar one nearly 40 years ago with a slot on top as a coin bank and it’s still a treasured keepsake. My problem was the label on the bottom with the combination came off and I had loads of fun trying to figure it out! Again, great job.
This is my favorite woodworking channel man!
Thank you!!
Beautiful boxes and a great video, a pleasure to watch 😃
Those came out so nice. I like that Jointer\Planer combo.
Yeah maybe one day I'll have the extra 6k laying around, 😂 they really are nice though. Time saver for production work
Well done. A friendly tip, cut the dado before the mitres. Way faster as one piece. Unless you were really trying to save on material by flipping the piece. I prefer a continuous grain if I can anyways. The boxes turned out great!
Good idea. I've had issues with tearout in the groove because it doesn't have a backing but I guess it's not that big of a deal.
These are gorgeous!
Excellent video...thanks for sharing.
Your vids are a highlight to me.Those boxes are amazing work! I like the idea of the PO box doors. Very unique!
Thank you!!!
You have good work skills. Alteration of tasks is a key technique to prevent mass disaster incident, and it actually improves productivity.
Heck of a hob producing all your boxes, gives me some ideas for flow and production with metalworking I do.
Great tips and a beautiful project thank you for sharing
Thanks for the info and love the box's and video!
Wow 2:30 you can really see the difference! Love the results!!
Thanks a lot!! Big fan of your work.
@@parillaworks Thank you for the tip and kind words! Got a new sub
Wow, nice work!
They are beautiful John. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Frank!
These are so cool.
Thnx for sharing. Greetings from the Netherlands
Great video. Boxes like that is something I’ve wanted to make but never found a reasonably priced supply of the doors.
Beautiful boxes
Just bought one of these from your store on Etsy for my wife. I think she'll dig it. Thanks, man. Love the channel.
Thank you so much!
very cool boxes!
2:00 one of those conveyor belt things that sushi restaurants have that rotate the dishes throughout the dining area. Or a model train with all flat cars to shuttle the wood from one station to the next.
Pretty cool idea
Beautiful!
Great job!
Having all the stress and deadlines takes the fun out of walking to the shop and just building what pops into my brain.
I would quit before I stressed out and made those timelines.
Great project!
Hey Bravo on the video my friend! Good workflow and although you need a push-stick it was EXCELENT! Like the finishing- You asked about a "Wood cart" suggestion- Look into modifying a folding sawhorse (H frame not A frame) and install wheels on the bottom- gives you a great break-down trolley with a fast setup upper-surface! Make it the height of your thickness sander and BOOM- now you have an outfeed table to boot. Not hard and in a space-cramped shop its easy to put it up or have floating about. Just get hefty casters- dont wuss-out there and you should be golden! Love the PO Box ideas- Keep it coming! (That cart could be a great follow up vid!)
Dang... great work!
Very nicely done! I'm trying to think about a few new projects that I can batch to stock up my Etsy shop and keepsake boxes are on the list - of course without those unique vintage lids!
Thank you! These were great because they didn’t require a lot of material and had relatively simple steps to complete.
Those are beautiful boxes. A nice touch would be added a slip of paper with the box cover PO Box history
Using the tape. You're picking up the tape roll every time you want a length. Trying to find the end and picking at it to get it started. Find a scrap piece of say melamine. Now pick up the roll and tear the number of lengths you want from the roll and place each one on the edge of the melamine with one end of the tape hanging off for easy and quick pickup. Once you start using this method you'll tear 20 lengths at a time. And get 5 boxes taped in the amount of time it took you to tape 1.
I love the way they looked all lined up at the end. Also a suggestion if you don't have space for a lumber cart - just buy a Roomba and stack the wood on it. I have no idea where the wood will end up, or how that'll help you, but... you asked for suggestions.
Thank you Alex! I'll add your suggestion to the rest and try to figure something out!
Thanks for the tips. Would suggest you develop a push jig to keep your hands away from the blade. It just takes a moments loss of concentration.
A lot of good advice for production work.
Thank you Ashley!
They turned out great.
Thanks John!
Nicely done! Small boxes are my specialty as well. :-)
A trick I learned from doug stowe: A 1/2 sheet pad sander inverted as you had your ros makes sadning go pretty quick.
Thank you!
Awesome project!! Just ordered one.
Thank you so much! About to go drop it off at the post office now.
I like how you used your digital angle gauge as a stop block when cutting your splines 😂 simple but highly effective!
Good catch! It was actually a magnetic base from my dial indicator. It locked in place on the table and wouldn't budge!
@@parillaworks Either way, adapt and overcome! hahaha
I'm in the process of making banks using these doors. The banks are actually in the shape of old mail trucks. I got the plans from rockler.
Fantastic simply fantastic
You did a great job. I like your suggestions on mass production techniques. I suggest cutting a slot in the tops and make them piggy banks. My dad did this and they sold better at local craft fairs.
So cool
Espectacular trabajo.😍😍😍😍
I dig it.
Just contacted CWI about the jointer planer based off your review. I need a jointer so bad but limited space and this way I can swap out my lunchbox planer, which currently has no home. Great job on the boxes, I would not have had the discipline to do so many! My second is one the way and I’m wondering how you get time! 😂
Our little guy is 3 months already. I've been able to get back in the shop for a few builds but its definitely more difficult!
Tq for new video upload. After a while waiting now its new video posted.
Very nice
They turned out really nice! (I don't think I could work that way, though - 1 box at a time for me!)
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This so cool! Where did you source the doors?
Great project, very creative, and lots of honest realities discussed. Still, I’m a big fan and encourage you to shoot more videos. Videos like this will get so many views over the years. Keep it up!
Thank you! I'm hoping to get some more videos out consistently in the coming months!
Thanks for explaining your process. This was very helpful! I'm planning to make a much smaller batch (5) for a customer. How much did you charge for these?
The small ones were $65, medium $85, and large $125-150. Depends what you paid for the doors though. I may bump the prices up a bit.
Big fan! I would love a parillaworks t shirt!
Thank you!! I have some available on my website if you’re interested :)
Great video man...Thanks for sharing..;-p
Cool!
Loving this video with all the lessons you learned. No room on the floor for a cart , considera over head gantry crane that that moves in all directions. In our dreams :-) Sorry I don't have a reasonable suggestion.
Thank Nate!! The gantry crane is something I'll have to run by my wife. I'm sure she'll have no problem with it!
Awesome work. I was at the festival, didn't see you though!
Aw too bad man. Next time!!
Modify your outfeed table to be mobile, then it can double as a milling cart. Probably use those work bench snap up casters from Rockler (?) then it drops flat and solid on the floor to serve as outfeed.
Nice boxes
Solid week's work!!
My outfeed is mobile but it’s too big to really actually move around the shop. I think some small krenov style sawhorses could be useful.
@@parillaworks that could work.
Perhaps you need a small cart shaped outfeed for the jointer or the bandsaw
With 2 levels...the to be processed and the already processed
Awesome work ! You got a new subscriber :)
Thank you!!
John, you did a great job on the boxes, I have a few of those box front and wondered how best to use them -thanks for the idea.You really need to get a bench sander comb safe your finders huh. Keep woodworking its great result on your Instagram.
Thanks Larry!
You should definitely be using a push stick at 2:50. Even if you feel safe enough doing so, you are a role model as a content creator and therefore people will copy some of your techniques. On the other hand love the video and the things you make!!!
This is as fascinating and I appreciate the effort. That early piece of you walking away from the jointer to get a breath of air tells the story. I don’t know anything about your pricing and margins but I wonder if you couldn’t hire a 14 year old kid from the neighborhood for a couple of the tasks - say gluing the splines and doing that sanding in the orbital sander? Not like you were paying attention to detail. But one day might cost you $100 at most?
Thanks a lot Rick! It's something I've considered but I don't do work like this too often so it probably wouldn't make sense for now.
Very nice work. Where did you find all of the post office box doors?
Thank you! Most of them are from eBay.
Love the channel John, and I really like the boxes. Could you possibly let me know where you got them? I’m a fellow carpenter/furniture maker in Florida as well. I’d like to build a few for family. Thanks and Happy Holidays!
Thanks for watching! Most are from eBay. I usually search “post office box door” or “P.O. Box door”. There are various types and sizes. I would say a good price is $10-20 per door depending on condition and size. Sometimes you’ll find bulk lots that lower that per door cost. Happy holiday to you as well! Good luck!
I'm thinking of buying the same planer/jointer and I'd love to hear your thoughts on it.
Jay Bates has the same one and he did a review on his channel... It's an awesome piece of machinery
Branden Grant Jay bates has a hammer a3-41 this one is a cwi
@@Hatchmade Shit, my bad... I didn't even realise this wasn't a Hammer :) - they both look so similar
Well done. Good of you to reuse the mail box doors. Where would you find something like that? Also, it was encouraging to hear you say you broke up the production run when working through the process. Standing at the table saw too long tends to induce a "zombie" effect and one can lose concentration. That's when things go wrong; fingers get damaged, etc. Stay safe, man. Subscribed ages ago.
Thanks! Yup, I broke them up into batches of 13 or 14 and it seemed to work out well for the most part.
Great video and beautiful box, can you tell me where you got the lids from please
Thanks David. Most of them are from eBay.
How are you liking that planer/jointer? Im thinking about getting one.
So far so good! Just jointed and planed some 14" wide cherry yesterday and the machine handled it well.
How can I find out about when you are going to another festival. When you said south Florida I looked at your website and an realize I live in a neighboring town. Was the festival you were at the one this past weekend at The Walk?
Hi! It was at the Walk, yes. I haven't booked any more shows but plan to soon. I'll try to make a post here on youtube or instagram to let you all know.
Interesting to see how each person setup for a production batch! I think a block plane would have been faster to break the edges. Or at the very least, more fun...
Not a bad idea!
Do you have the combination to the boxes. If you forget the combination, how do you get them open.
Yup, I have a record of all the combos just in case a customer loses the combo or forgets it.
Your Number One Fan here. Those keep sake boxes look cool, but there are not original ideas. Growing up I was a big fan of the James Bond movies and the original Wild Wild West TV series. The TV series always had some new original cool spy gadget on every episode that truly peaked my interest. So, I kinda wish you could find a more creative way to use those Post Office things. They do look like some sort of SteamPunk device. Keep up the good work 👍👍👍🤓
Thanks Keith! I see what you mean. I had some other plans for the boxes but figured this would be the most efficient use of them for the time being. When I get some more of them I'll try to make something a bit more grand.
how do you like the scorpion JP? it certainly offers some advantages over the nearest competitor (hammer) - namely in price, haha! from what i understand it's likely the same machine as the jet/rikon (which really are the same machine)
So far I like it a lot. The 16” capacity is a game changer. The 12” machine looks like the Jet and Rikon, yes, but those brands don’t have a 16” model. Nonetheless, I like the machine and will be doing a review/overview in the coming weeks.
Install an overhead trolley to shuttle your parts around the shop.
I use overhead racks. With exposed rafters in my shop it's easy to do. One extra large rack hangs down to about 5 feet above the floor, then it can swing up out of the way by use of a winch. There's headroom to walk around under it.
The idea of a trolley would be a lot of fun, but I think a gantry crane running across the ceiling on tracks would be more practical. I have a design that also uses a winch to raise and lower the stock. It's 8' wide, running on tracks going all the way across the shop ceiling, a little over eighteen feet. But I never built it
Where did you buy the lot of postal office doors?
He mentioned in his other video he got them on ebay.
Just found your channel while watching some Sam Malloof vids. You mentioned you were in So Fla. Do you mind me asking where? West Palm here.
Thanks for watching! I’m down in Coral Springs.
Super nice. U gotta love the monotonous builds. Complacency is easy to come by.
Beautiful. where did you get the post office lids?
Thanks Lee! I found a big lot of them on eBay. They’re always available just gotta find ones in good condition. Search “post office box door” or “po box door” and some should pop up.
@@parillaworks Thank you for the information. By the way, what do you charge for these boxes? I ask because the existing ebay charges for the post office mail doors are like around $30 to $40 each. So what does the entire box costs customers that you make?
@@leejackson3781 No problem. At the time, I was able to get all of the doors for roughly $10-15 each, on average. I had the small ones at $65, the medium at $85, and the large at like $150 or so. The large are more rare so they’re priced accordingly. But if the doors are closer to $30, then ya these prices I’ve listed won’t be very profitable.
Awesome where did you find all of them
Thanks Eric. I got most of them on eBay.
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Can you tell me what brand is the dowel jig you use?
It looks fantastic
Dowelmax. Thank you.
Random question: do you have any left. I know it was a year ago, but I figured I’d ask. Love the look!
Hi! I think I have a few left in my Etsy shop. Maybe 2 or 3.
brilliant.....how did you manage to find so many doors?
Ebay!
Nice job. How’s the sale of them go? Really cool idea with the PO Box kids.
Not bad so far. Definitely have a lot left but they'll be a good thing to have on hand for random sales.
how long from first cut to last screw working houts estimated
That’s a great question that I wish I had the answer to!
Suggestion: don't glue in the box bottom. The wood needs to be able to expand and contract, so a small bb of rubber in each groove to prevent movement would be a better choice than the glue.
I only put glue on the middle of the short grooves which should allow the panel to expand and contract.
Where did you find those doors?!?! Those are tremendous
eBay!
Wow
South Florida in March there are more Canadians then Americans down here, it novel when I don't see a Quebec license plate driving around
You're not lying! Funny enough, I saw one of the new Tesla Model X cars today and it had a Quebec plate on it.