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Easter egg display box - ®smpr_fi_mac® - 04-23-2019 "Dearest husband, your sacred mission is to build me an Easter egg display box of the finest wood with which I shall impress my esteemed family when we host Easter dinner." Okay, actually, my wife told me to build her a simple box to use as an egg centerpiece for Easter dinner. I may have exaggerated a bit. Her original idea was just a block of wood with holes drilled into it, as she found on Pinterest. Wood is curly maple and cherry. Finish is several coats of spray on satin lacquer. I used the dovetail spline jig I built a week ago to strengthen the miters. Wood was resawn and oriented to create a continuous grain effect. Yes, her family was mightily impressed by it. It led to several tours of my messy shop. RE: Easter egg display box - stav - 04-23-2019 It looks great. Think of all the other non-egg related items you can display in there at non-Easter times of the year. Next time you take family for a tour of the shop, you should press them into clean up duties. RE: Easter egg display box - fredhargis - 04-23-2019 That's really nice...love that wood. Guess you forgot the part about "simple box", huh? RE: Easter egg display box - ®smpr_fi_mac® - 04-23-2019 (04-23-2019, 07:40 AM)stav Wrote: It looks great. Think of all the other non-egg related items you can display in there at non-Easter times of the year. Ha! Several of the male family members were quite jealous that their wives wouldn't let them take over the garage as mine had. (04-23-2019, 07:57 AM)fredhargis Wrote: That's really nice...love that wood. Guess you forgot the part about "simple box", huh? Honestly, for me, this is simple. Miter boxes are *very* easy to make, and the spline jig makes making them strong and pretty just as simple. It's easier than dovetail joinery! I had a piece of curly maple that was just the right size for this, so that was a no-brainer. RE: Easter egg display box - GNP - 04-23-2019 Very nice. . RE: Easter egg display box - JohnnyEgo - 04-23-2019 Beautifully done! RE: Easter egg display box - Superglide - 04-23-2019 Curly Maple in a piece is like Philly Cream cheese in food. Can't go wrong. Nicely done!!!! RE: Easter egg display box - Gary G™ - 04-23-2019 Like I said on LJ’s: great looking! RE: Easter egg display box - shoottmx - 04-24-2019 Gorgeous! Love how the grain follows around the corner. g RE: Easter egg display box - ®smpr_fi_mac® - 04-24-2019 (04-24-2019, 06:24 AM)shoottmx Wrote: Gorgeous! Love how the grain follows around the corner. I used this method to get the effect: http://keithlarrett.com/2013/05/11/continuous-grain-on-a-box/ |