{"id":6311,"date":"2020-02-05T07:27:03","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T15:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/?p=6311"},"modified":"2020-02-05T07:27:53","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T15:27:53","slug":"blue-river-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/blue-river-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Woodworking: Blue River Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"river_box_dawn1.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/river_box_dawn1.jpeg\" alt=\"River Box - blue pigment filling\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>My friend commissioned me to make a custom box for her upcoming wedding. This is the second box I\u2019ve made in this style, with the first one being called a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/making-a-river-box-with-epoxy\/\">waterfall box<\/a>&#8220;. I originally started thinking about how I could create a flowing river on the top of a box, and this simple design came from that idea. Here are a few pictures of that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/spalted-oak-blue-river-box\/\">original river box<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This design\u2019s size was specific to what my friend requested. I previously had set aside some spalted oak pieces that I thought would work well for the box, but they were all a bit small. I ended up making the river wider than the previous box, but this turned out to look really nice. The wide river really set a nice balance to the size of the wood.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"river_box_dawn2.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/river_box_dawn2.jpeg\" alt=\"River Box - lid closed - woodworking\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The box has alder wood for the sides. My friend requested redwood, and I cut some redwood pieces out of my old water tank wood and set them up to it. I felt like the colors didn\u2019t go well with each other, and the dark sides just wouldn\u2019t fit in. So I opted to use alder instead, which looked lighter and more fitting for the piece<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"river_box_dawn3.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/river_box_dawn3.jpeg\" alt=\"River box with redwood sides\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"river_box_dawn4.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/river_box_dawn4.jpeg\" alt=\"River details\" width=\"750\" height=\"1000\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 My friend commissioned me to make a custom box for her upcoming wedding. This is the second box I\u2019ve made in this style, with the first one being called a \u201cwaterfall box&#8220;. I&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/blue-river-box\/\">[read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[217,223,237,218,73],"class_list":["post-6311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-woodworking","tag-box","tag-redwood-monkey","tag-riverbox","tag-wood-box","tag-woodworking"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/river_box_dawn1.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6311","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=6311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6313,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6311\/revisions\/6313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}