Small birch and apple box
This is a small box of birch, pine and apple. The size is 4x2⅜x2½ inches or 100x60x63mm.
I made the box to use up some small scraps, and to practice “working small.” The size was determined by the size of the scraps and “by eye” as I fine-tuned the dimensions.
The sides of the box are quarter-inch (6mm) birch, dovetailed together. The bottom is ⅜ inch (9mm) pine, rabbetted into the sides (to reduce the apparent thickness), and the top is a ⅛ inch thick piece of apple from a crab-apple tree that grew in my yard in Minneapolis.
The insert is 1/16 inch maple veneer, simply cut to size and glued to the insides of the sides so the top slides onto the insert.
Finish is a coat, inside and out, of tung oil, followed by a bunch (8-12) coats of platina shellac, followed by a few coats of violin varnish on the top.
I love the way the top turned out, and am glad I didn’t just throw away that small scrap.
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