Red Cedar Lidded Boxes

[hilltopper46]

A friend of mine from church had a red cedar that needed to come down, so he asked me to make some things from it. It had sat around after it came down long enough that it had cracked pretty badly, but I salvaged enough from it to make a lidded box, and the body of an acorn box. The top of the acorn box is black walnut.

The lids on both boxes are threaded.

 

[jjjaworski]

Those are gorgeous. Very nicely done.

 

[Jim15]

Beautiful work.

 

[leehljp]

What did you use or how did you thread those? - Or are my eyes deceiving me on the size.

What IS the size on those?

NICE looking!

 

[bsshog40]

Those are sweeet! very nice. Love the acorn lid!

 

[wolf creek knives]

Way beyond cool! Nice work indeed.

 

[gimpy]

Very nice

 

[Charlie_W]

Great job on these Tony!
Your design, threading, and finish are very nicely done as is the texturing on the acorn lid!

 

[Joebobber]

Very nice. For some reason I just can't get my acorns to look like acorns. What size of threading tool did you use?

 

[MRDucks2]

Quite Nice! Love the acorn box in particular.

 

[mark james]

Wonderful turnings. And I also admire the acorn box. Very well done.

 

[1080Wayne]

Beautiful work , Tony . Although I can`t help but wonder how some of those nice cracks would have looked , filled with sparkly turquiose Alumilite clear .

 

[ebill]

Great work. Would love to know the object sizes and the how-to threading too.

- ebill

 

[LouCee]

They look great, very nice work!

 

[hilltopper46]

Thanks for all the 'Likes" and kind comments.

Size - I didn't take a 'scale' picture because these didn't go on Etsy. I often take a picture with a soda pop can because everyone can relate to that size. The lidded box was about 2-3/4 diameter and about the same height to the bottom of the threads (if I recall correctly). The bottom of the acorn IIRC was about 2-1/2 inches in diameter and the cap was about 3 inches in diameter.

Threads - I use the Chefware Kits EZJig for threading and these are threaded at 16 TPI. Red cedar requires a lot of CA for stabilization before and during the process.

 

[leehljp]

Thanks for all the 'Likes" and kind comments.

Size - I didn't take a 'scale' picture because these didn't go on Etsy. I often take a picture with a soda pop can because everyone can relate to that size. The lidded box was about 2-3/4 diameter and about the same height to the bottom of the threads (if I recall correctly). The bottom of the acorn IIRC was about 2-1/2 inches in diameter and the cap was about 3 inches in diameter.

Threads - I use the Chefware Kits EZJig for threading and these are threaded at 16 TPI. Red cedar requires a lot of CA for stabilization before and during the process.

I thought I had seen this before and then I found it in a previous post you did with some others:

Acorn boxes with threaded lids

I've made several of these acorn boxes with threaded lids over the past few months. These three are marblewood with a mesquite top, and two plum wood boxes both with bubinga tops. The second picture is to show the threads. I'm using the Chefware Kits EZJig to cut the threads and texturing the...

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Thanks for posting this.

 

[jebrooks76]

Very nice work.