Awesome Hybrid Bandsaw Box - Custom Jewelry Box

I call this a hybrid bandsaw box because it doesn't seem to quite fit the strict definition of a bandsaw box most the people who I've asked about this seem to agree with me on that not everyone who does dull and so I'd like to ask you a favor at the end of this video after you've watched it through would you please leave a comment and let me know whether in your opinion that this design actually fits the strict definition of a bandsaw box or whether in your opinion this would be a hybrid bandsaw box or what are something else what would you call this design so I knew that later in the project I would need some long pieces of veneer that matched the box so the first thing I did was to slice a few pieces off of that billet before I did anything else once I had the veneer I cut a piece off the billet that was just the right size for the box once I cleaned up the faces of the block then I sliced a few larger pieces of veneer off of that just in case I would need those [Music] this box is going to have body top and then another piece for the base so the first thing I did then was to slice those pieces out of that block [Music] now I was ready to rough cut the body and the top of the box but I saved the base for later because that would be a different size I used some small brew so stop hinges for this box I really like these hinges in fact I think these Brousseau hinges are some of the best if not the best hinges on the market for boxes a stop hinge will hold the the top of the box in upright position when you open it without any chains or anything else that to keep it from going too far back and I really love that feature it makes for a very nice clean look to clear the waste for the hinges to excavate that area I use a dremel with an eighth inch spiral bit then I have the Dremel mounted on a Stu Mac or Stuart McDonald router base this particular model that I'm using is relatively inexpensive 60 bucks maybe this is just the best setup for installing hinges and I'll have a link in the description if you want to take a look at them I can get the mortises really really close using that dremel with that nice router base but I still need to have to do a little bit of cleanup with the chisel to get it just right I said I really like these Bruce oh stop hinges they're normally installed with the barrel protruding out the back of the box but I wanted to mount them flush to the back of the box which created a lot of extra problems actually the reason for this is because the stop hinges by design have a square barrel and that being the case when you open those hinges the leaves of the hinge swing out beyond the plane of the barrel so what this means is I have to route and chisel a small trough at the back of the hinge mortise to allow those leaves to clear when I open and close the box this is a little hard for me to explain but hopefully it'll be more clear as I go along here but this is what I had to do to get the hinges mounted flush to the back of the box after I routed the clearance trough at the back of the hinge mortise well then I had to clean that up with some chisels and just like I did with the regular hinge mortise getting enough clearance for those hinges to operate smoothly and getting the flush look that I was going for was very very time-consuming and tedious this was probably the most difficult part of the entire project in fact I would say if you were going to wanted to build one of these and you're not prepared for some high-risk difficult tedious handwork then just mount the hinges the way they're intended to be protruding from the back of the box save yourself a lot of trouble once I have the hinges installed in the top of the box I put some double-faced tape on the hinges and I set the top onto the body of the box then I carefully checked to make sure everything is lined up exactly perfectly where I want it and then I gently opened the box up with the hinges double-faced taped onto the body and I use a knife actually in this case I'm using a scalpel to mark the exact location of where the hinges should be installed on the body once I finished the mortises for the hinges in the body of the box I realized that there was a little problem since the back of the barrel of the hinges was flushed the back of the box that meant the center of the hinge the actual pivot point was inside of the box so those little pieces of wood right alongside the hinges were binding when I tried to open the box so then I had to plane just a tiny little bit of wood off each side of each hinge to make a 45-degree bevel and allow clearance for the box to actually open and close okay so this is how they looked after I got everything done I think they looked pretty good and you can see from the side that little 45-degree notch that I that I just did I think you know this is just very very nice elegant look and it was a lot of extra work but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out once the hinges were all set the next thing I did was to shape the tabs on the back of the box where the hinges are located incidentally these golden wood rasps are hands-down the best of the bargain in woodworking I think like $15 for a set of two of them and they work great I'll have a link in the description if you want to check them out I wanted to put a recess on the inside of the lid of the box so I made a template from scrap that I had laying around and I double-faced taped that onto the lid of the box and I used a router with the down spiral bit to route the recess so next I wanted to put a dome on the lid of the box I roughed that shape out on my belt sander then I spent a lot of time with files and rasps and sandpaper to get the final shape so this particular box is a gift for my niece Sarah and I wanted to put an s-shaped divider in the middle of it I started out trying to bend some black wood into that S shape with the hot pipe method the result was a cracked oily brittle mess I thought it might be better if the heat were evenly distributed across the wood so I tried heating it in the oven that really didn't work then I tried steaming it over over a frying pan on the stove that didn't work I thought you know there has to be a way to do this so then I tried actually boiling it in a pan over the stove and then bending it into my form okay new plan I took some black dyed veneer I cut it into strips so I cut 70 strips of black dyed veneer and then I laminated them all together in a little s-shaped bending form and that worked great [Laughter] I made a wooden template that was the exact size and shape of the later and then I transferred that shape onto the laminated blank with some blue masking tape then I cut the thickness and rough cut the shape on the bandsaw then I fine-tuned the shape on my spindle sander I wanted the sides of the divider inside the box to be maple and matched the rest of the box so I took some of that band sawn veneer that I cut at the beginning of this project and I bent it roughly into a shape that I need with a hot pipe I used liquid hide glue and then I wrapped it with elastic tubing to hold the veneer in place while the glue dry I hollowed out the body of the box with a jigsaw and in the process I uncovered a crack I repaired that by opening it up and holding it open with a little wedge and clamping some superglue into that crack later on in the video I'll show you how I painted over that so it wasn't noticeable I carved a small little finger pulled relief in the front of the box just under the lid to make it easier to open it and it added a little texture on the front of the box too I wanted the S shaped divider to just sort of flow right into the maple so I took some extra time to make sure that that s was just a perfect fit inside of the box and again I used liquid hide glue to glue the S shape divider into the body of the box I wanted the bottom of the box to have a rounded profile that extended out just a little bit past the body of the box so I traced the shape of the box on to the bottom with a pencil and a real small washer I couldn't use a profile bit with this highly figured maple without tearing apart so I shaped the profile by hand with files and the sandpaper I pre finished the parts of before assembly and I used two different colors of shellac I put a coat of garnet shellac on and after that dried I sanded that ah and that darkened the the soft areas of the wood similar to what you would do with a dye and then I went over that with many many coats of super blonde shellac after I had the shellac on there and I knew what the final color of the box would look like then I could go back and paint over that crack that I showed you earlier I use regular acrylic paints that you buy at the craft store and I blend them together and just work at it until that crack is gone after I got the crack covered with the right color then I went back over it again with a little darker color and painted some grain lines into it and finally I got to glue it together so here's how it looked when it was done and please leave a comment and let me know what you think of this is it is this a hybrid bandsaw box was this a regular bandsaw box or is this something different I'm really curious let me know thanks for watching if you like this video please give it a thumbs up that helps my channel and by all means if you're not already a subscriber to jack bench then please hit the subscribe button and click on that little bell icon so you'll get notifications when I put out new videos thanks for watching my video [Music]

Channel: Jack Bench Woodworking

Views: 23,172

Keywords: Hybrid Bandsaw Box - Custom Jewelry Box, band saw box, jewelry box, woodworking, box design, design, jewelry box design, woodworking ideas, woodworking projects

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Length: 14min 45sec (885 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 29 2018