{"id":454,"date":"2008-09-22T12:24:29","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T19:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/09\/wedding-boxes\/"},"modified":"2020-02-15T06:45:58","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T14:45:58","slug":"wedding-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/wedding-boxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Woodworking: Wedding Boxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>I recently went to the weddings of a few of my friends. Last weekend Tom and Nancy had a &#8220;Wedding Camp&#8221; celebration, and two weeks ago Andy and Irene got married in their barn. Both weddings were amazing and it was fun to be with some friends<\/p>\n<p>In the pursuit of avoiding standard gifts, I decided to employ my woodworking skills and make them some boxes out of &#8220;nice&#8221; wood. Here&#8217;s some pictures of the building process.<\/p>\n<p>I used cocobolo wood for the top; it is an exotic hardwood. I try to avoid exotic woods for obvious eco-reasons, but I just couldn&#8217;t help myself. The wood is beautiful, and I had seen it several times at the Global Woodsource store and just had to buy a piece. It is expensive, and I bought a small $60 piece.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img-0727.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img-0727-tm.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"451\" alt=\"IMG_0727.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bottom of the boxes is made out of an american wood &#8212; sycamore. When quartersawn, it has a beautiful speckled pattern. Best of all, it is a cheap wood, and $20 bought me a nice huge piece of wood.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a shot of the boxes in progress:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img-0703.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img-0703-tm.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" alt=\"IMG_0703.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After gluing them together, I used my newly built router table to route out some slots for keys:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img-0739.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img-0739-tm.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" alt=\"IMG_0739.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few hours later, the keys were glued in and dried. I cut them off with a saw and sanded them smooth:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img-0741.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img-0741-tm.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" alt=\"IMG_0741.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next the top was cut off the boxes using the table saw. I don&#8217;t cut them all the way through, and leave a tiny bit on (seen in the photo) that I cut through with a utility knife.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img-0746.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img-0746-tm.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" alt=\"IMG_0746.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After a bunch of sanding, I finished the boxes with a eco-friendly water-based finish (sprat on):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img-0787.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img-0787-tm.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" alt=\"IMG_0787.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The keys are actually centered from top to bottom, but it would have looked better if I centered them up to the chamfer on the top.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img-0797.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img-0797-tm.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" alt=\"IMG_0797.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently went to the weddings of a few of my friends. Last weekend Tom and Nancy had a &#8220;Wedding Camp&#8221; celebration, and two weeks ago Andy and Irene got married in their barn. Both&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/wedding-boxes\/\">[read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[217,218,73],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-woodworking","tag-box","tag-wood-box","tag-woodworking"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img-0746.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6338,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/6338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}