My friend, Tim Sullivan (pictured at left), and I are spending time in the workshop creating Shaker Boxes. We ordered kits from John Wilson in Michigan. We each bought one of the Presentation Boxes and Tim will make his first attempt at a series of cherry boxes.
We are working in a garage workshop with a small electric heater, so it is cold. But the fun of working together and having a good time together makes up for the chill. Tim is a very skilled wood worker but has never made these boxes. In this one small instance of wood working I am the teacher. What a change of our usual roles.
This first weekend we prepared the cherry box sides and heated and bent the wood. We left the boxes to dry over this next week. We will hopefully meet again next Saturday to cut and fit the box bottoms and lid tops. The boxes will then be ready for finishing.
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