re: shoe shine box

I somehow missed this one Bob. A great looking shoe shine box with some very nice details and wood too.

Your project brought back some fond memories. I made a shoeshine box when I was about 8 or 9 years old as a cub scout project. I then put an old brush and an almost used up can of brown shoe polish into it and headed to a shopping center where I shined shoes for 10cents. It wasn’t long before I had enough money to buy more cans of polish, some nice brushes and rags, all on that first day. I spent most of my summer vacation shining shoes to make some pocket money. I mainly hung out near the entrance of the supermarket and I was there every day so wives would drop off their husband’s shoes for a shine while they were doing their grocery shopping. I was busy at it from the time I arrived in the morning until I left several hours later.