The white paper was patterns for each piece of wood.. the biggest surprise I got was running out of patterns and trying to get a printer at a library in Colo. to print out the exact size pattern I made at home. This I do believe is impossible and I had to wait till we got back home for just one pattern which got lost somewhere in the traveling. I glued up all the wood blanks at home and didn't glue the patterns on each piece of wood until a few minutes before I was to saw on that piece of wood..The pieces were cut out sitting besides the motor home on the grass... If a pattern is glued on to a piece of wood a few days before one cuts it out with the saw then the pattern will be all wrinkled and it will change shape something terrible..

  All the pieces for 4 boxes were scroll sawed out while sitting at a RV park in Colo one summer in about 2006. I had just built a band saw box and it came out with wide gaps here and there...so I says why not use the scroll saw and get tighter tolerances??? 

 I think I finally realized why guys don't do the scroll saw thing for it takes many Vise Grip clamps to preform this endeavor.

Plus it takes a while longer to build one of these. The little dowels there I put 4 dowels in each side of each board for alignment while the glue is setting up...This does take a few extra hours to get all the holes drilled. 

  Plus all the drawer pieces gets 4 dowels in each side of each piece of wood also...

 

Just had time to go through my pictures for a few old thoughts.

Something I've never tried to make. Scroll sawing is not on my skill list.

It's not something I've ever tried either, but you sure made it look great.

that is awesome.  Thanks for showing that.  

That is a beautiful box.  Hours and hours of work on the scroll saw.