I'm glad I watched this video clip. You've provided clear, understandable methodology along with handy, useful tips and diagrams. I'll follow your lead with my first ever box making tomorrow. P.S. Regarding an earlier comment, you don't talk too much at all! Who knows what that bloke was drinking to come up with that remark. 😖 Thank you for your good guidance! 👍👍
The "story stick" was a good idea. I have used it before on construction job sites but never thought of using it in my shop? Your box speaks volumes on your skill! You are a craftsman. You also produced an excellent video!
I'm obviously late to see this UA-cam clip as some comments are 4 years old. Regardless of that, I've just subscribed to your channel due to fact that (a) you perform very good work and (b) you have an very easy style of explaining and demonstrating what you're doing, why you're doing and combining it with some important, handy tips. It's been my experience that so many other presenters leave/edit these out. Maybe it's because they expect their viewers to be moderately(?) experienced ... but I'm a late-in-life beginner/hobbyist, so for me personally, all of that extra info is really helpful and very appreciated. Thankyou for a job well done!
Didn't have time to attempt this myself so I just bought a similar box for around $300. Expensive, but will last a lifetime. Its a watch box with a glass hinged lid and a bottom drawer. Walnut and maple were the perfect compliment for a fine watch and knife collection.
beautiful work! know it was made a while ago, but just getting into woodworking, and wondered how you measured for the inside liners? Again, great build!
Thank you for the excellent tips on cutting the top from the box -- order of cuts; blue tape; and small wedges. I'm building a box now and will use this approach. As an aside, regarding table saw insert plates: Whether it's factory- or custom-made zero-clearance kerf plate, it seems difficult -- if not impossible -- to get a perfectly flat alignment between the table surface and the plate. Case in point: As you were cutting the top off, I notice your box shifted slightly as it transitioned from table to plate, which necessitates sanding. I guess I'm not alone in dealing with the "slop"; so, I reckon a thank you for validation is order. It makes me wonder whether any table saw manufacturers have this sorted out. hmmm.
Great looking box! Might I offer a interesting tip, when I go to cut the lid off the box, I use a 7-1/4" x 24 tooth Freud Diablo framing blade. It only has a 1/16" saw kerf and works great in a table saw. (except Sawstop). I also use it to cut slits for splines on boxes if I want a smaller spline.
I like your work. I like your detail. I like the contrasts in wood your using. They blend nicely. But on a personal note, I really like how you have organized your garage. I work out of my garage as well and I can tell you mine is not remotely close to yours. You should do a pan around with your camera one day. Organization is key to this type of work.
I make my boxes in a very similar fashion. I don't use splines, but I really like that idea and will incorporate in the next boxes. Also, I'm so envious of your bandsaw ... I wish I could re-saw like that! Very nice box, and great video as well.
Nicely done! I usually am no great fan of these miter joints, but the way you did them looks good and will hold forever. Question though: you split your thick boards into thinner ones, When I did this they had a tendency to warp on me, bulging out where the center had been. Have you seen this, or did I just cut my boards too early, wen they were not totally dry yet?
hello, it´s very good. the combination from walnut and maple is great. i love walnut and maple. i make a dining table in walnut and maple. greatings from Graz/Austria, Peter
The maple looks like ambrosia maple. I've used them to make box lids on walnut boxes. It makes a nice contrast between a "live piece" and a finished one. Reference Doug Stow box making.
Nice box. I like to use liners also, gives the box a finished feel. On mine I round over the top of the liners with a 1/8th round over bit. Are you going to put hinges on the box?
Or, it's something they've learned from experience that these tools are essential; unless you want to do everything by hand. You don't need to be "wealthy" - buy them one at a time and consider buying used.
I’ve tried doing mitres like this @1:50 and always seem to end up with a cut that’s not at a right angle. I’m sure the work piece is moving sideways as I push through the blade. Don’t know if this is due to blunt blade or what
Little late, but I would check the actual angle of your blade against a piece you know is at a 45 degree angle. Or a piece that is at a 135 degree angle on the other side, which may be easier. Blades can be out of square to start with, or the angles labeled on the saw may be slightly incorrect. It only takes a tiny bit to throw the whole project off. They also make electronic angle checkers, which I've seen some people use but have never looked into as I'm a budget woodworker
Skraith Thanks so much for replying. It’s not actually the 45 degree part of the cut that’s that problem. It’s the cut that is perpendicular to the fence on the mitre gauge. I’ve done this with a home made sled and then mitre gauge provided with my table saw. I’ve checked and both of these are definitely 90 degrees to the blade and the cut always ends up being off.
If English is not your first language and you don't understand the language, learning from UA-cam would naturally present difficulties for you, however for your information this was actually very well presented. Try to be more tolerant. I've seen many clips that I couldn't understand but it's not a problem as I can keep looking for another clip to work from. Please keep this in mind.
I'm glad I watched this video clip. You've provided clear, understandable methodology along with handy, useful tips and diagrams. I'll follow your lead with my first ever box making tomorrow.
P.S. Regarding an earlier comment, you don't talk too much at all! Who knows what that bloke was drinking to come up with that remark. 😖 Thank you for your good guidance! 👍👍
They Say That Absence Of Fuss Is The Hallmark Of Intelligence,You Are A Very Smart Guy, Great Video Thanks
One of the best explanation videos I have watched.
Thanks
Thank you
The "story stick" was a good idea. I have used it before on construction job sites but never thought of using it in my shop? Your box speaks volumes on your skill! You are a craftsman.
You also produced an excellent video!
Thank you.
I do like your style of working. You are concise in your explanation and don't over or under explain what you do. Thanks for sharing.
I'm obviously late to see this UA-cam clip as some comments are 4 years old. Regardless of that, I've just subscribed to your channel due to fact that (a) you perform very good work and (b) you have an very easy style of explaining and demonstrating what you're doing, why you're doing and combining it with some important, handy tips. It's been my experience that so many other presenters leave/edit these out. Maybe it's because they expect their viewers to be moderately(?) experienced ... but I'm a late-in-life beginner/hobbyist, so for me personally, all of that extra info is really helpful and very appreciated. Thankyou for a job well done!
The end result is nice! I should face my fears and try to make one. I don't have all the same tools but enough to pull off a similar result!
Didn't have time to attempt this myself so I just bought a similar box for around $300. Expensive, but will last a lifetime. Its a watch box with a glass hinged lid and a bottom drawer. Walnut and maple were the perfect compliment for a fine watch and knife collection.
beautiful work! know it was made a while ago, but just getting into woodworking, and wondered how you measured for the inside liners? Again, great build!
Your panel raising bit is a neat tool to have really makes the recess on the box spot on.
Thank you for the excellent tips on cutting the top from the box -- order of cuts; blue tape; and small wedges. I'm building a box now and will use this approach. As an aside, regarding table saw insert plates: Whether it's factory- or custom-made zero-clearance kerf plate, it seems difficult -- if not impossible -- to get a perfectly flat alignment between the table surface and the plate. Case in point: As you were cutting the top off, I notice your box shifted slightly as it transitioned from table to plate, which necessitates sanding. I guess I'm not alone in dealing with the "slop"; so, I reckon a thank you for validation is order. It makes me wonder whether any table saw manufacturers have this sorted out. hmmm.
Great looking box! Might I offer a interesting tip, when I go to cut the lid off the box, I use a 7-1/4" x 24 tooth Freud Diablo framing blade. It only has a 1/16" saw kerf and works great in a table saw. (except Sawstop). I also use it to cut slits for splines on boxes if I want a smaller spline.
Awesome tip, thanks.
Burls, Walnuts, and Maples are my faves so that looks perfect to me.
Great video, very well explained throughout the build.
Nice application of a story stick, I have not seen it used in this way before. Excellent!
Thank you
Thanks for showing how to wrap the grain. This box looks great! I love the figuring in the maple.
No sweat. I wish I could take credit for the process but it's pretty old. I saw it in an old issue of FWW several years ago. Thank you.
Great job walking us through the process. You explained it all very well and the box came out great!
I like the way the top sits. Putting on hinges on a box like this is tough.
Youn hit this one out of the park Brian. I love the way the grain wraps around the box like you said and the splines finish the box off. Great build.
Thank you
Beautiful build, and a lot of helpful tips! thanks!
Thank you.
Gorgeous! I learned so much from this terrific video. Thanks so much!
Great project, I loved how it turned out
Very nice. I like the subtle change in colour towards the bottom of the box sides.
Sapwood can be really striking. Thank you.
Would it not be better to put the inside spacers on the lid and thus preserve the maximum amount of space in the bottom?
Really nice piece of work!
I like your work. I like your detail. I like the contrasts in wood your using. They blend nicely. But on a personal note, I really like how you have organized your garage. I work out of my garage as well and I can tell you mine is not remotely close to yours. You should do a pan around with your camera one day. Organization is key to this type of work.
I have a shop tour video. Check it out: www.garagewoodworks.com/video.php?video=228
Really nice job!
good one Julien Lamarche
Great selection of wood and construction method.
Thanks Jim!
I do like the flow on this video
Nice job gave me inspiration for a dresser organizer to keep all the stuff that goes into my pockets
Now this was excellent! Im impressed.
Very good presentation of box making. You do good.
I make my boxes in a very similar fashion. I don't use splines, but I really like that idea and will incorporate in the next boxes. Also, I'm so envious of your bandsaw ... I wish I could re-saw like that! Very nice box, and great video as well.
Thank you
Ill have to use tht tape idea when cutting off my lids. Thanks.
Really a nice job.
This was an absolutely beautiful box build! Subscribed and thank you for sharing.
Thank you
Hi. I like your video! I'm not very knowledgeable with wood works equipments May i know all the equipments that you used aside from table saw?
I don’t have time. Sorry.
Nicely done!
I usually am no great fan of these miter joints, but the way you did them looks good and will hold forever.
Question though: you split your thick boards into thinner ones, When I did this they had a tendency to warp on me, bulging out where the center had been. Have you seen this, or did I just cut my boards too early, wen they were not totally dry yet?
+Tielo Jongmans Mine almost always warp a little toward the newly cut surface. Usually just requires a light pass over the jointer to flatten.
hello, it´s very good. the combination from walnut and maple is great. i love walnut and maple. i make a dining table in walnut and maple.
greatings from Graz/Austria, Peter
The maple looks like ambrosia maple. I've used them to make box lids on walnut boxes. It makes a nice contrast between a "live piece" and a finished one. Reference Doug Stow box making.
Looks like it, but this was due to mineral streaks not spalting.
Love your channel and this project 👍😊 just found you again, I thought I was subscribed
Very nice! And it gives me an idea on how use a piece of spalted maple I found at our local big box hardware store.
That's a great box, Bryan! Very nicely done! Thanks for the video.
Thank you.
Really nice decorative box.
Very nice. No less than 5 grippers in the shop, but no riving knife or splitter for the table saw?
Removed the riving knife for making a groove (dado). Riving knife not really needed here for cross cutting. See 5:10 for riving knife during a rip.
@@GarageWoodworks Gotcha I see it now.I was worried when you were cutting the top off it would pinch the blade
I used wedges to hold the kerf open when cutting the lid off. Did you watch the entire video? Or just go right to attack mode? See 8:10
Came out real nice
Nice technique. That’s a beautiful box!
How do you deal with the glue squeeze-out on that last miter joint inside the box?
After the box is cut open.
Great video, and the box turned out excellent.
Love your work!
Fantastic looking box! Enjoyed the video.
Beautiful bookmatched box Brian.
Thanks Brian
I see you put clamps in the middle of your glued boards does this make a problem taking the clamps off ? does it screw up the glue job ?
Not at all. The center clamps help keep the boards flush. If glue gets on them they don't stick to the wood.
Nice Project.. Would make a nice Humidor
Nice box. I like to use liners also, gives the box a finished feel. On mine I round over the top of the liners with a 1/8th round over bit. Are you going to put hinges on the box?
Thank you. I lightly round the edges over by hand with sand paper. No hinges on this box - just lift off the lid.
Great build!
Beautiful job, dude! 😃
I just subscribed! 😊
Excellent, beautiful box...
Cheers...
Really nice.
Make a little sled for the box to sit in and send it through the drum sander.
That is a nice crisp and clean looking box Bryan is always good stuff that Maple did look pretty damn sweet
Thanks Joe!
It amazing me that most all u tube wood workers have planers and jointers. Must be a wealthy group
Or, it's something they've learned from experience that these tools are essential; unless you want to do everything by hand. You don't need to be "wealthy" - buy them one at a time and consider buying used.
Dear Sir, could you give me the name of the tool at: 7.44 minutes? Thank you so much in advance!
Is there another kind person who knows the name of the tool? It will be a present, so if some one could help me, Thank you so much...!
Hi looks like a low angle block plane
I’ve tried doing mitres like this @1:50 and always seem to end up with a cut that’s not at a right angle. I’m sure the work piece is moving sideways as I push through the blade. Don’t know if this is due to blunt blade or what
Little late, but I would check the actual angle of your blade against a piece you know is at a 45 degree angle. Or a piece that is at a 135 degree angle on the other side, which may be easier. Blades can be out of square to start with, or the angles labeled on the saw may be slightly incorrect. It only takes a tiny bit to throw the whole project off.
They also make electronic angle checkers, which I've seen some people use but have never looked into as I'm a budget woodworker
Skraith Thanks so much for replying. It’s not actually the 45 degree part of the cut that’s that problem. It’s the cut that is perpendicular to the fence on the mitre gauge. I’ve done this with a home made sled and then mitre gauge provided with my table saw. I’ve checked and both of these are definitely 90 degrees to the blade and the cut always ends up being off.
No Cherry ? LOL Looks great Brian !
NICE
Do you have plans online of your story stick?
I do, but they are only written in Klingon and it uses the Klingon base-20 measurement system. Can you translate it?
LOL
Where does someone get a granite slab like that to sand on?
Also, how big is that slab?
See here: www.garagewoodworks.com/GW-azn.php#measuring
12” x 18”
What’s the dimensions of the box?
Looks like Ambrosia Maple
Can you tell me what kind of router bit that is @ 5:35?
That is a panel raising bit with an included back-cutter. These can be found with varying profiles where you buy your router bits.
Does anyone else have a problem with maple flaking when jointing or planing
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0:39 table saw??? More like bandsaw, but suppose it still have a blade on the table
Hé la mi pourriez vous mettre les dimensions
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Sucks that you feel the need to put an ad at the beginning. Downvoted.
Is this your first time on UA-cam?
Anyone notice he said tablesaw instead of bandsaw? :p
I’m such a dummy.
Little more time spent on the liner making mitered corners
You’re welcome.
support free content by patreon, also I will embed a micro-jig commercial into the beginning of my video... nah, piss off
Happy holidays!
You talk too much, you tube has a worldwide reach, and not everyone knows Engles. Mind that.
If English is not your first language and you don't understand the language, learning from UA-cam would naturally present difficulties for you, however for your information this was actually very well presented.
Try to be more tolerant. I've seen many clips that I couldn't understand but it's not a problem as I can keep looking for another clip to work from. Please keep this in mind.