My Dad is a woodworker - Page 2 - Woodworking Talk

creative novice · 04-09-2009, 08:43 AM

wow....guess that makes daren the acorn that didn't fall far from the tree..........i think i got my interest from watching my dad in his workshop! i was the cabose of 4 , the oops baby....the hyper one....so, i would run with dad and watch him in his workshop.....never making much but puttering around anyway. my mom also liked to refinish furniture and sew clothes and stuff for the house.....so, i like to do it all! envy you of the companionship of your father to owrk with and share interests! Nice Boxes Dad!

**Daren** · 04-09-2009, 09:03 AM

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Originally Posted by TexasTimbers

How exactly did he do that top?

As we have discussed my dad is a "Hey there is a neat looking knot !" guy. There was a slab of flat sawn sycamore on my $5 wall with a big knot in it, the ray fleck showed all the way around the knot in a weird circle. He cut the knot out and used the fleck as a medallion in the top of the box. Looks like he has more left because that was just a piece resaw/bookmatched, so he would have the other half for something else. Bookmatched like that looks way cooler, good thinking on his part.

Box makers/segmented turners/crafters love the $5 wall...I used to just throw all this away because it was not "lumber" but after seeing what some of these guys/gals do with "scrap" I save some piece of interest and lean them up against the wall. $5 or 5 for $20...$20 can make a BUNCH of boxes. And we are talking a little of everything too walnut/cherry/osage/mulberry/elm/sycamore/ash/cedar/honeylocust/black locust/hard maple/oak/pecan/hackberry/birch....

AZ Termite · 04-09-2009, 10:40 AM

Those are some awesome boxes you dad builds. It would be nice to find me some "scraps". No one mills around here though.

**TexasTimbers** · 04-09-2009, 12:33 PM

I understand the book matched part. I'm just wondering how he chose to assemble the top - how many sections etc. I can see several ways he could have done it and just figured you may have asked him.

No big deal no need to ask him.

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**Daren** · 04-09-2009, 01:11 PM

I saw the box as he was working on it, he already had the top/carcass done but not all the inside stuff. So I kinda know how it went together.

The medallion (funky sycamore) and the border (quilted spalted maple) where roughly the same thickness and just laid out/cut/glued together like a jigsaw puzzle as a panel, then thickness sanded perfectly flat as a unit. You could see them equally well from the bottom with the lid lifted off and flipped over. The molding (for the lack of a better term) around the top is regular curly maple (as well as the base at the bottom). The molding was assembled and had a rabbet to accept the flat panel he glued up for the top.

At least that is the way it all looked to me, if I explained it well enough.

Sabres78 · 04-09-2009, 04:21 PM

Those are some very nice projects. I really love the box that started off this post. I'm wondering what, roughly, was the size of that box? I can imagine several different versions of that design, such as a storage chest for my soon-to-arrive son. Is it storage chest size, jewelry box size or something in between?

**Daren** · 04-09-2009, 07:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Sabres78

I'm wondering what, roughly, was the size of that box?, jewelry box size

Yea, jewelry/dresser top box size 12"D-14"W-14"H or somewhere there abouts.

PTownSubbie · 04-09-2009, 10:02 PM

Daren,
Tell your dad that those boxes are incredible. I have been working with wood for about 6 years now and I can do some stuff without plans but nothing that detailed!!

I too love the box that started the thread.

I could really use a place like yours around here

Fred

phinds · 04-09-2009, 10:56 PM

Daren,

The back of that osage orange and walnut box looks better than the front of most boxes you see. Your dad is quite the craftsman.

Kenbo · 04-10-2009, 09:05 AM

I don't know what it is about boxes that I like. Whether it is the variety of style, the joinery, the hardware, the finish etc. I don't know, but your father has captured all of them. I love the work. Don't just tell your father that I said "great work", get him to join us crazy folks so we can tell him ourselves. He would be a welcome asset to the forum. Thanks for posting on his behalf. The boxes are awesome.
Ken

The woodsman · 04-10-2009, 11:38 AM

WOW just awesome work there.I make jewelry boxes also,but I think he could give me a leason or two.

**TexasTimbers** · 04-10-2009, 02:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Kenbo

.... get him to join us crazy folks . .

I think he did join Ken, but he's too busy building furniture to be typing letters into a keyboard.

Nate1778 · 04-10-2009, 04:31 PM

Man, Daren tell pops he has some talent. Man, I am a little jealous at this point. All my kids do is supply me with an infinite amount of lip and drool...........

sharon333 · 04-16-2009, 06:28 PM

I would have to agree that he does have some skill.

**Daren** · 09-26-2009, 02:13 PM

Dad was by for a visit this morning and brought this jewelry box he made to look like a chest of drawers/dresser. He had a scrap of corian laying around, a little mirror, a little bit of walnut...and an idea. A cool one I thought. I took a couple pictures with the drawers open, but for some reason they did not turn out and he was already gone with it before I realized it.

Chad · 09-26-2009, 08:54 PM

That is cool, now he just has to build the dresser to match for the box to sit on! Tell him very cool.

Streamwinner · 09-28-2009, 12:40 AM

This didn't go under the post titled "little things"? Haha... very creative stuff.