See Part 2 of this build and completed project.

 

Yesterday I was wrapping up some work for a customer, and I had sometime in between waiting for the paint to dry so I thought, man I'd sure love to do something fun right now. And I have always wanted to build one of the Colonial Wall Boxes we have here on our site at the Downloads department.

So I came in and printed out the plan, took it out to the shop and commenced to ripping down a 10/4 chunk of cherry to build the box.

 

First photo is my block of Cherry that I cross cut off 18" from a 10 foot length of it I had laying around, you can see our colonial box plan to the right of it.

 

 

Then it took me about an hour to get the pieces roughed out of that 10/4 Cherry, I had to re-saw it on the TS, take one pass then flip it and another pass.

But we got the parts roughed out, or some of the parts, we still need the base and the drawer parts, but the body of it is roughed out pretty good.

 

 

Then a dry fit to make sure it resembles the image in the plan.

 

 

I band-sawed the back and sides out about 1/16th up to the layout line, and I used a rasp to fair the curves and bring the shape into the pencil lines.

I still have a couple hours to go on this lil project, but it is fun! These are very cool looking. Once together I'll be smoothing the edges, sculpting the outline and beveling, to give it some character and to get away from the boxy look it has now.

I may have to build one of those also, when it gets warm around here. It's 1* now at 10am. Warmest it's been for days.

Man we are freezing our bootys off at 42 Harry!

Nice project John,

 

 

 

Just the type of project for a small shop.

 

 

 

 

Well we've made it to 26, and it's snowing pretty good.

 

 

They've closed off I 94 about 1 1/2 miles north of us, 20+ car/truck pile up.

 

Sweet little project, John.

Nice little project John. Looking good so far.

Now that's just too cool. I want to do things like that but I'm too slow to run out ans whip it out.

That's coming along really good. Like the beautiful cherry and patterns, looking forward to seeing it finished.

 

 

Thanks guys for the kudos, this is a fun project! The next one I make I'll do from curly maple, I have seen the wall boxes in curly and they are outstanding.

Well Larry, I got a small shop that's for sure!!

Up from the archives, this was a Workbench Magazine Plan we used to have on our server, I'll look for it, re-scan it and upload it to our files sharing center.