Drawer box complete

I finished the drawer support box, but for a bit of sanding and routing, so it is now ready for me to make a dovetailed drawer.

I will use my moxon vise to hold the stock as half-blind dovetails are cut by hand. There is satisfaction in it.

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an answer to too much glue

Reader's must have had experience, as have I, in spreading too much glue or in having tiny and precise applicators plug up and require laborious cleaning. 

The answer can be found in Kindergarten. The Kindergarten plastic glue spreader is available in mass quantities from Amazon https://amzn.to/4monpcd

Buy in whatever quantities you want, knowing that even with the strongest glue that it comes off and you can use again. I bought enough to share with students and friends. https://amzn.to/3IOwRae

Spreading glue for linings in the photo, I laid a bead of glue with a conventional glue bottle, then used the spreader to move some of the glue into corners. Easy. And avoids a mess.

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A tower of boxes...

 There is a heatwave in Northwest Arkansas, and the AC in the shop is having trouble keeping up. As an alternate to keep my hands busy, I'm finishing a few remnants from earlier projects in the finish area (one end of the house). 

This is a tower of boxes left over from my book Beautiful Boxes, Design and Technique published in 2014. It is held together by rare earth magnets.

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testing Glancy's No. 1

  This is a test of Glancy's No. 1 Penetrating Oil Finish.

time to sign boxes...

In days past one could tell the species of wood being cut by the sound of the axe, even at a distance through the forest. Not so, now, so we go to more extreme efforts to get folks acquainted with the beauty and diversity of our native woods. 

I sign the names of the woods used in making my small inlaid boxes on the underside, helping folks now and in future generations to thus know that the woods have taken part in the creation as much as I. 

Each box is a collection of natural woods in natural colors and a gift to subsequent generations.

It's time to sign boxes.

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Twenty eight boxes

These are 28 inlaid boxes, assembled, shaped and ready for sanding. They are walnut and linden and inlaid with a variety of local hardwoods.

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a simple box?

 A simple box may have four sides and a top and bottom but are things really all that simple? There are a huge range of techniques involved as suggested by my students as they exercise their own creative inclinations. I will have a three day class in October.

I am currently working on a few  (28) boxes to sell though galleries and online.

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