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Here is one I made 7 years ago. I almost forgot all about it. I went to Washington DC with my son and grandson a couple of days after my 75th birthday and my son's 50th birthday. His birthday is the day after mine. This is a JGR pattern and the only one I ever made of it. I gave it to a wonderful person in the little town of Heppner, Oregon, where we lived for 15 years. He was in the Army Intelligence and also the mayor of our town. It humbled him and he thought it would be better seen at City Hall instead of at his house, so he gave it to the city and it was put up in City Hall. Dick heppnerguy

I use 1/2" baltic birch for backers and end up with a lot of scrap. Cut them up in strips and glued them face to face to make usable pieces to make this box. I only do something like this when my planer blades are super dull and I'm ready to change them because all the glue and end grain in the plywood will dull them quick. I used stain to even the wood color out a bit.

In a post under Q&A, OCtoolguy was asking about use of Thin MDF. In his post he happened to show a pic of a Tissue Box cover he was making that had an image of a Palm Tree on its sides. This reminded me that I needed to make a couple more cube type tissue box covers for my home, and a Palm Tree would be a good image for my Florida home. And, as you are aware in Florida, pollen is prevalent, so allergy siffles and sneezing results in tissue boxes being all over the house. I had previously made a Hummingbird Cube tissue box cover for my lady’s desk and then a Seahorse cover for one of our end tables. I needed another one for my desk and another for the other End Table. Using the same building techniques as previously with mitered joinery, I made these two covers, “Beach w/ Palm Tree” and “Starfish”. The box walls are nominal 1/4” thick made up of Solid Core 5/32” Maple cut panels mounted to 1/8” thick BB ply hand painted backers. My corner joints are much better than my previous builds but not quite as neat as I would like. However, since they are a utilitarian product for my home with a little Art built in, they work well when pulling out a tissue and the joints are only very noticeable in the photos…not so much in the real life sitting on my furniture. Comments and critique always welcome.

Red Oak planed down to 5/8" thick. Its about 10" x 8".

I like nautical patterns and projects, and I have made a lot of it, mostly as a presents. And here is my latest - Galleon Galleon pattern

Thanks Jim Blume for the pattern

I will add some of my useful items just for the heck of it.

Test-tube rack for holding scroll saw blades. Dragons are on two sides of a dice tower, the dragon-topped box is a tweaked Steve Good box design, used it to hold D&D dice. The two heart-shaped jewelry boxes are also SG designs (added a dragon to one for my daughter, rose went to my wife).

This is a double lidded basket made out of 5/16 cherry. Not sure of the details, but I did extend the tenons and used toothpicks as pins to hold it together; the is no glue in the tenons, it all friction fit. A dresser mirror. I added a picture frame to the back of the mirror, either use as a mirror or turn over and use as a picture frame. A small fretwork basket, cherry. I made my first one of these with my old sears hobby saw; 3" pin end blades. Take out the top pin, drill a series of holes to make a slot, feed blade through the slot, use safety pin to replace top pin, cut.

I use this stand for my Kindle tablet every day. Made it last year. Tom

I hesitate to post these pics because most of you have already seen them. But here goes. The nut basket, votive holder and center piece are all derived from patterns by John Nelson. The 3 candle holders are from a pattern by an unknown designer. I took the original and made 3 sizes out of it. The last one is a bowl from Sue Mey.

I like items with a purpose and compound cutting, so years ago (actually January 2017), I made a compound cut Air Plant Holder. This is a Sue Mey pattern. The second picture is from the customer that purchased to item. What a fun category.

Have cut Many Different Patterns for this and This one is Far Better than them All. It is just Cut at this stage and still have the way to cut some more. Question is that I can see Something in the Right Top Area. First thot is a Cross. Any Ideas out there? Thanks ....................Danny :+}

I like functional projects.. I have posted these earlier this year. This first picture shows me using it. Everytime I leave the house I put one of these on.

I don't have a lot of pictures of stuff I've made. I managed to find these of a couple things I made several years ago. Not a lot of scrolling in this piece, just the ornamental symbols on the front and the lid. This is a faith chest. I make these for our church to present to the family when a baby is baptized.

I must hand it to everybody for all your great work and creativity. We truly have a gifted group here on The Village. Cudos to everybody. Keep the beautiful work coming. I see many items here that I will be begging you for your patterns. Or at least your sources. Thank you to all.

I agree with the others. Round first. That way the glued piece doesn't get into the way when you do sand and also you don't risk breaking the glued piece.

Just goes to show that if you have the desire you can overcome all obstacles. Nice work.

So many projects to choose from! Here are a few. The hair pick is used every day as are the phone/tablet/ereader stands. The salad "fingers" and pasta measurer are in regular use. The sun/moon light was made for my grandson 4 years ago & is still used.

I think this fits the Theme. Made for my Lady's young Grandson, who loves Dragons, so he can learn to tell time that is not digital and learn a little Chineese at the same time. Edit 9/4/22: Just remembered my Cube style Tissue box covers...very functional projects.

Well, thanks to all you guys who gave me advice on cutting Corian, I was really struggling till then. The advice to use clear packing tape on the pattern worked the best. I knew about it when cutting wood but never even gave it a thought with Corian. Here is a picture if the cut item, it's just needing a good buff up and polish now. Thanks for the help guys Keith.

I finished these up this evening. They are stack cut from a pattern by Granpa, one being Oak and the other Birch. Both are 1/4-inch ply stained with Minwax Natural. The backer board is 5/16 Pine simply painted black. The frame is Maple framing material with the Oak frame stained Colonial Pine and the Birch frame stained with Natural. Both were sprayed with 4 coats of clear gloss with light sanding between coats. This pattern was a lot of fun to cut. While it may look complicated, the frets are fairly large and, surprisingly, the project didn't take as long to cut as what I had thought. There are a couple places you have to be careful about cutting out a bridge but overall, it was pretty sturdy. Thanks, Grampa, for the great pattern.

that's interesting and intriguing. We experienced a similar situation a few years ago. My wife was making a cake of the Duhamel cathedral for a friend. Quite detailed with its many windows and such. Anyway, it looked really good in real life, but the photos I took of it showed every little imperfection. Can't quite figure that out, but assume the brain is responsible in some way. By the way, nice cutting. Especially like the starfish.

Personally? I'd say leave it as-is. The piece speaks for itself, no need for embellishment or cluttering-up. Nicely cut, as well!

Between working on a bunch of worn out farm equipment, the garden and working on the house I finally got to get in the shop for a few days. The bowls are Poplar strips glued together and then bowls made from the boards. The basket is the first I have tried like that. It is just from 3/16 plyboard.

Very nice they look great

excellent job

At any given time we have 6-8 tissue boxes open.

Very nice Dave. I like that it is different style of box. Unique and beautiful. I have some bandsaw boxes I made using Baltic birch sandwich with more exotic woods. They turn out beautiful and I doubt anyone but a woodworking really looking would know the middle is baltic burch ply. I got the ideas and patterns for the ones I made from David Picciuto and his website. He sales a set of 4 for $5 on his website. Then he has a book with more and different patterns that I like better. https://makesomething.com/product/bandsaw-box-templates-1 The Book can be purchased in paperback or kindle version on Amazon (it’s cheaper then buying from his site, but on his site you do get an autographed copy. ) https://www.amazon.com/New-Bandsaw-Box-Book-Techniques/dp/1950934144/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=8gbNh&content-id=amzn1.sym.8cf3b8ef-6a74-45dc-9f0d-6409eb523603&pf_rd_p=8cf3b8ef-6a74-45dc-9f0d-6409eb523603&pf_rd_r=Z1WY3V15NDM0NPQWF1KX&pd_rd_wg=56qEg&pd_rd_r=2f41d90c-2210-400d-929c-60058aed0099&ref_=pd_gw_ci_mcx_mi Here are just a couple of the designs I did to give you an idea or two. I am sure once you guys see them, you may get more ideas on making your own. I mainly wanted to give you another idea for using the bb ply scraps. They were big hits with family. The top one is my favorite. I flocked the insides of each box.

A couple of beauts Frank. the colours look good. I am currently working on one for the missus.

You must be very proud Dick, having your work hung in a public place for all to see.

Your covers put mine to shame. I guess I'll have to step up my game. Yours are beautiful.

Nice job, Glad you are able to get back to it.

You have been holding back, Dick! I have never seen that before anywhere... Awesome piece.

@JohnB and @Gonzo used "Wow" so I have to go with "Super" to qualify your work on this one.

Wow! Very cool! I love your imagination

Really neat!!!!!!!! I have tons of 1/4' Thick BB ply scrap that I keep but hardly ever need to use. It is something I may just try. Thanks for sharing this great Idea.

Well I have to say, After not cutting for a year, you certainly have not lost your touch. Nicely done Dick heppnerguy

It doesn't seem a year away from the saw has had any negative effect on your abilities. Beautiful piece.

Thanks so much. I was inspired by Steve Good's Tube Box pattern to make this. If you use Inkscape I can send the SVG file. tubebox.pdf

Thanks, When a fella spend 6-8 hours a day in the shop you're bound to come up with a decent project now and then.

I like the idea of candy.

This looks like a functional project. Anything with hinges make it functional. Awesome looking project. Maybe straw holder? candy bowl.

Bumble bees are on my list of favorite things, you made my day,thanks good job!!!

Neat cut and love the colours but I'll be honest, I'd be worried with just pins it would fall apart with weight in them especially with children could be dangerous the pins. I'd still put glue in places to make sure they stayed put. Of course it's a peoples choice. Just my thoughts. I make a few of these never had issues with glue yet. Roly

beautiful work

If it helps, I always sand first then glue. Pictures worth a thousand words

They both look fantastic. nice clean cutting too.

Beautiful !

Thank you all so, so much. The 'Village People' are absolutely brilliant !!! I have it now and off to my workshop.