Bandsaw box #2 (sorry...not sure how/why this is double posted)

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Second attempt at a bandsaw box. I wanted to make a container to hold my husband's "good" pair of glasses as he stored the glasses in a blue plastic container (sigh🙄). This one is walnut and maple.  

Got one straight edge by taping a piece of plywood to the one side and running that along my bandsaw fence. Ended up fine for this purpose. Did this as I wasn't comfortable running a short piece on my jointer.  Then cleaned up the other side.

I drew an outline of my intended shape on the block BUT then had trouble with keeping my blade on my line (need to put on my narrower blade) and veered off course. 🤦‍♀️Rather than scrap the project, I decided to simply call this a random pattern box. 🤷‍♀️ Moved forward with the drawer and various glueups.


The drawer pull was a cut-off piece that seemed to work. I had a small piece of maple/walnut as another option but decided to go with the walnut. Taped the area and used wood glue.

On the plus side, having my blade now at 90 degrees resulted in a good fit for the drawer from the start. Used router and then chisels in the corner to ease edges

I used the adhesive back felt again but struggled with the fit. I also put a piece of the felt on the bottom of the drawer so the drawer fits/slides nicely in the case. Finish is Odie's Oil.

His glasses fit just fine, and he says he likes the box.

For next time, I need to change the blade to the ¼ inch one I bought from Timberwolf.  Plan to order some flocking materials to try rather than the paper. Also will better mark the pattern so I can follow the outline more accurately to what my intent is. 

Once again, learning opportunities abound, but even with the oops and errors, these are pretty fun and don't take much time compared to some of my other projects. Need to start planning for #3. 

Additional pictures:

The box and the blue plastic container it replaced - not too hard to improve on that!

That's a huge improvement over blue plastic🤣

Nice job Barb!
Thanks Steve.  This one had a pretty low bar for improvement!
About half the time I post anything other than text here I get the double tap thing? Not sure why? I still like the box.
Seems odd as I don't think I did anything different in the post?

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