Coopered lid box

[Stuart]

My daughters partner does a lot of landscaping work and gave me a bit of old oak post and jokingly said ‘make something out of that’.

So I did.







The mark on one of the pins is a timber defect not a burn mark!

The hinges are really rather naff ones I’ve had hanging around for ages. Didn’t feel this box warranted the expense of posher ones.

Lined with leather. Finish is shellac and wax.

 

[DaveL]

Very nice, it's quite surprising what is inside an old post.[emoji3]

 

[Malc2098]

Nice.

 

[MY63]

That is a fantastic box.

 

[9fingers]

I did some coopered forms a while back and really enjoyed the project. No hand tools naturally :lol:

Nice chest!

Bob

 

[AndyP]

Clever, elegant and very nice. How did you mark and create the angles for the lid pieces.

 

[AndyT]

A chest to be treasured!

It's always good to see what can be made from wood saved from being burnt or wasted.

 

[TrimTheKing]

Very nice mate. I made a coopered chest a few years back and it was good fun, and a great sense of achievement when finished.

 

[Blackswanwood]

Awesome!

 

[Woodbloke]

Excellent box!...nice thick sides as well :eusa-whistle: - Rob

 

[Mike G]

That looks like it was great fun! I like the coopered lid. The hard part, I reckon, would have been cleaning up the inside.

 

[PAC1]

Excellent
But now we will be looking forward to the detailed explanation of how it was done.

 

[Rezi]

That looks great and I am also looking forward to the WIP pictures

 

[RogerS]

Excellent box!...nice thick sides as well :eusa-whistle: - Rob

You did know that your nickname was now 'Chunky' ?

Super craftsmanship, Stuart bscene-drinkingcheers:

 

[Windows]

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[Cabinetman]

Yes that’s pretty darned good, the next challenge will be a fully barrelled lid, using tapered staves!

 

[thetyreman]

beautiful box stuart, very nicely done :eusa-clap:

 

[johnward]

A really attractive box Stuart. Congratulations.
John

 

[Stuart]

Clever, elegant and very nice. How did you mark and create the angles for the lid pieces.

Andy, - full size drawing helps in determining how much of a curve you want then the formula I used was 360 divided by the number of staves for a complete circle divided by 2. From memory these were in the region of 4.5 degrees. Obviously smaller staves will give a smoother curve but if you’re careful you can achieve a fairly close grain match.

I made the lid first and then sized the bottom to suit. Only a couple of mm out from my initial drawing

 

[Stuart]

That looks like it was great fun! I like the coopered lid. The hard part, I reckon, would have been cleaning up the inside.

Not if you cheat Mike!

Staves were glued together overlength using masking tape to hold them in position then cleaned up when dry. Carefully cut to length and rebated for the ‘ends’ that were scribed to fit.

 

[9fingers]

That looks like it was great fun! I like the coopered lid. The hard part, I reckon, would have been cleaning up the inside.

Not if you cheat Mike!

Staves were glued together overlength using masking tape to hold them in position then cleaned up when dry. Carefully cut to length and rebated for the ‘ends’ that were scribed to fit.

That's not cheating Stuart, It is sensible planning and seeing potential difficulties ahead and working out methods to avoid.

There has been a recent discussion on another group centered on our year at school and lately particular members of staff. One such encouraged us to be lazy. Not in the sense of not doing our work properly but deciding on the easiest way to do things - it was possibly the equivalent of todays saying "work smarter not harder"
Its a philosophy that I tried to instill in my team of applied researchers. When a job is getting progressively harder, don't just carry on but consider earlier decisions made, possibly reverse some and there would quite likely be a better, easier (more lazy?) way to achieve the end goal.

Bob