Quilt-top Boxes

[Lee DeRaud]

Blame Vaughn for these: he posted the link to Al Ladd's website awhile back. I 'cheated' though: these are veneer...hundreds of 1/2" squares of veneer.

Rectangular box is poplar outer shell, cherry inner shell, wenge accent. Top is oak, mahogany, walnut, rosewood, and maple.
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Square box is red oak with wenge accent, same woods on top plus cherry.
Quilt Box (small).jpg

[Brett Baldwin]

Those are some sharp boxes. They bring to mind a kaliedescope when I look at them. I really like the beveled corner on the top box. It dresses up the finger joint well.

[Jim Becker]

Veener....schlameer...they look great! The end result is what counts! (And veneer is safer for small projects like this, IMHO, relative to the cutting operations)

[Vaughn McMillan]

Very cool stuff, Lee, like always. The pattern came out great and I like the corner treatments on both of the boxes.

And it ain't cheating just because you used skinny lumber. You still had to painstakingly cut out each little square...by hand...with a sharpened rock...under bad lighting conditions...in the cold and rain...dang, I'm getting a tear in my eye just thinking about the deplorable conditions you must have gone through to create these boxes. No siree, you didn't cheat at all.

- Vaughn

[Bernie Weishapl]

Lee those are some awesome looking boxes. Veneer looks good. Combination of the woods look good.

[Bruce Shiverdecker]

And people make comments about my Itty Bitty work!

Your middle name, LEE, is Patience!
Great lookin'!

Bruce

[Corey Hallagan]

Excellent Lee!! Those are great looking boxes! Thanks for the photos.

Corey

[Frank Chaffee]

Wow Lee,
What I want to know is how a guy nearly my age can place all those small pieces of veneer so precisely?
That Al Ladd is an inspiration, isn't he.
Geez, now I have to watch both you and Vaughn (not to mention several other hog dogs on this forum).
Thanks,
Frank