Almost to the month, 5 years ago, I built a trinket box with a lot of detail inlay pieces that resembled a quilting pattern called Building Blocks, IIRC. Anyway I followed the plans from WoodSmith magazine and had great difficulty following "their directions" and having the project come out correctly. Long story short their instructions had numerous errors and to this day I look back and wonder how I got it to come out right. I built one of these boxes with the expectation of building several. I had several people that wanted to buy in quantities. Swingman ended up with that box and it looks great along with all of his furniture in his home that he has built through the years. One of the persons that wanted a few of these boxes is having a birthday, 7d something ;~), on Halloween. She is finally getting one.
I have been working feverishly for the last 5 days recreating that box, another one, and 6 more. I absolutely had to complete at least one and having had great difficulty 5 years ago I decided to concentrate on one or two boxes. I discovered the serious error in the instructions and discovered that the instructions were also way too complicated. I simplified the shape of some of the parts and it is almost fool proof now. Soooooo
Here is how box number one looked yesterday afternoon. It need final sanding of the little parts and a few coats of varnish.
Box number two in the back ground before I applied a 1/8" radius round over to the 30+ parts on top.
Sides for 6 more boxes
And just playing around with the pieces I think I am also going to make a large framed wall display to hang on the wall and probably larger than this. Oddly this array seems to be floating in mid air. ;~) The pieces are 1/4" thick and actually sitting directly on top on my TS.
Questions or comments?