tuesday class is already full 
i can’t win…
Boxes are fairly easy to make. You’ll find a lot of great videos on YouTube. After watching a few, you should be able to produce a nice box utilizing the tools at hand.
Yeah, if you’re experienced enough with the tools to spot when someone is doing something unsafe on YouTube, then I’ll agree with you, but a lot of us don’t have a great deal of experience with the tools in Wood Shop which is why hands on project classes like this one are so valuable to us. A newbie armed with a little over-confidence and a YouTube education can easily spell disaster.
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This class was really great! As always, Matt provided great instruction, patience, and a lot of good tips. It was an opportunity to put my hands onto the controls of many of the major woodshop tools, which was particularly useful for me. Everyone came away with a beautiful nearly-finished box (the splines had to glue overnight). I highly recommend this class!
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Can ya’ll post pictures of the boxes? I’d love to see your creations.
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This was a great class and a fun project. Here is my box. It is aromatic red cedar - the only box that didn’t use an “exotic” wood. I wrapped the grain around the box, so I had to make a minor adjustment in the cutting procedure to accommodate that. Working the soft cedar presented some minor challenges (especially the lid) but it smelled wonderful. The splines are, ummm, some old turning stock that was sitting around my garage - ignota ligna, I believe.
Once we had the wood prepared, the actual construction was fast. You could knock out several boxes in an afternoon if you had your wood already prepared.
As always, Matt was phenomenal! I highly recommend you take this (or any of his classes) if you can.
So c’mon guys … I know everyone else got their box finished or nearly finished. Let’s see some other pictures …
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OMG I want to make one!!
I have cancelled tomorrow evenings class due to the jointer being down. I will reschedule after the holidays. I don’t know a way to give the students in the cancelled class first opportunity at signing up for the second class but if it exists I think that would be nice.
@AlexRhodes - maybe you can answer this … Since @mkart had to cancel the class due to an equipment problem not of his doing - could he set-up a new class and select “attendees require approval”? And under the circumstances (again, not of his doing) could he still get the honorarium that way?
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Here is the box I made. Very happy with how it turned out. Matt is a really good teacher. Can’t wait to make some more!
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so pissed i missed that class. hopefully I get signed up for Matts live edge badass table class where he brings all the wood.
The boxes are really nice!!! … buy Dayem that table they are sitting on is WHAT I want to build!! Did you make that too?
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It’s a slab of cocobolo, I made a coffee table with it for a furniture exhibition I was in years ago. I bought several slabs of various sizes but so far this is the only one I have used. The coffee table was to big for my apartment here so I pulled the top and am using it as a desk. I need to build a new base for it.
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Cool.
When is the next class?
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I want to take this class so bad
I am traveling a lot over the next month so it will not happen for a bit. I did see that some of the students who took the first class were using the jig to make more boxes last night! We will do this again since it was successful and there seems to be interest.
My UADD has me wanting to do something on veneering too. I ordered in new veneer glue a few weeks ago to make a box out of veneered plywood. Dan brought in some white washed figured sapele veneer to work with.
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I have a a lot of other veneers if we want to teach a class on veneering. The boxes look awesome, too.
Finally got around to cutting off the splines, sanding and finishing. The main box is Paela (http://www.wood-database.com/chakte-viga/) with Cocobolo top and bottom. Matt was an excellent teacher and hope to take more classes from him in the future.
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