Shot some proper photos today of the carved boxes I made recently, before they're out of my hands this week. These ain't oak - they're butternut with pine tops & bottoms.
RF box, butternut, oak & pine
I'm not a terribly organized person but sometimes I wish I was. Lately I've been trying to organize/catalog the furniture I've made. I've made some headway with the carved boxes - the two here are #s 103 and 104 of boxes I have photographs of - I know there's easily two dozen that "got away" without photos. Maybe more. Every now & then I think "Oh, yea, I made so & so a box..." - I used to be called on to make them as presentations at the museum where I used to work.
RF box, till
Mostly I make them up - by that I mean I'm not copying an existing box but using techniques and designs from the period pieces I have studied over the years. Most New England ones, with a few exceptions, are not carved on the sides. Seems such a waste, I almost always carve mine there. Mine are glued and pegged at the rabbeted corners, most, but not all, period ones are nailed. When I'm copying an existing box, I use what that box used - nails, pegs, hinges, etc.
RF box, side view
I almost always make a wooden "pintle" hinge. I learned that hinge from studying some old boxes, but I've only seen it on a few period boxes. Most have iron hinges I call "gimmals" - usually now called snipe-bill hinges. Here they are on a chest https://pfollansbee.wordpress.com/2011/12/14/setting-gimmals-you-might-know-them-as-snipe-bills/
here's the companion to the box above -
DF box
And its till, the lid of which was a leftover practice piece.
DF box till
And just for the completists, the end
DF box, end view
Here's an example from about 4 or 5 years ago of copying an existing box as best I can - some construction, decoration, etc. But I told you I'm not terribly organized - I made two versions of this - but only have notes of one going to a customer. But they're both gone. Time to go sifting through my records some more...
box w drawer
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