Hi

I'm going to try to do a pictorial sequence of how I make a jewelry box. It will be in several parts with pictures for each part. 

Part 1 is listening to the wood and making the initial cuts

 

 

Edited June 23, 20196 yr by hatuffej

Wow, I clearly don't know how to stage the pics with explanatory text between each one. Anyway, the first pic is laying out the choices of wood followed by a selection based on the wood speaking to me. The ice cream sticks illustrate the intended orientation for the front and ends. The 4th pic is the chosen piece cut to 18.5 inches at the table saw. 

Next I cut the piece almost in half making 3-4 cuts. Then, its off to the bandsaw for the final separation. I have found this easier to do than trying to cut entirely with the bandsaw because sometimes the blade wanders and I then have 2 pieces of uneven thickness. A couple of trips through the planer gives 2 pieces just over 3/8" thick. An initial sanding with 100 grit to further clarify the conversation. A streak across the jointer to get a smooth straight edge, followed buy a rip cut at the TS for parallism. Set up the stop block on the miter gage to make identical 12" and 6 inch cuts. This prevents me from making errors that later lead to squaring problems. I now have 2 long sides and 2 ends and discovered I made the mistake of cutting the short ends from the wrong ends. Oh, well. Another thread talked about such things, yes?

 

Stay tuned. Next will be rabbets for the sides and bottom, followed by dry fit and glue-ups. Listening to the wood speak continues throughout the process. That will tell me about the trim, possibly an inlay, and the finish. After that, the lid runs approximately the same course, and finally the inner tray. 

 

Hope you enjoy!  

hat    

Hat, you should still be able to edit your topic.

Place your cursor to the right of a photo, then hit enter on your keyboard, maybe twice, that will give space between your images, and you can type the text. Also, make sure you are placing the images within your topic, not just uploading them at attachments. Hope this helps. Nice tutorial!

Like your resaw method!

1 hour ago, John Morris said:

Hat, you should still be able to edit your topic.

Place your cursor to the right of a photo, then hit enter on your keyboard, maybe twice, that will give space between your images, and you can type the text. Also, make sure you are placing the images within your topic, not just uploading them at attachments. Hope this helps. Nice tutorial!

The title of post is supposed to be "How I make a jewelry box, Part 1" 

How do I place the image within the topic? I'm pretty dumb with this stuff. 

Hopefully, I'll do better with the next set. 

Edited June 23, 20196 yr by hatuffej

1 hour ago, hatuffej said:

The title of post is supposed to be "How I make a jewelry box, Part 1" 

How do I place the image within the topic? I'm pretty dumb with this stuff. 

Hopefully, I'll do better with the next set. 

To place the image in the topic you click the plus sign beside the image . The easiest way to enter text then is to press enter as John said one or two times till a cursor appears below the image.