Woodworking for the Blind
This is a group photo of the six boxes submitted to our small box challenge.
Post Office Bank by Dennis Walker The box is a Post Office bank. It is 4” wide x 4” deep and 6” tall. It is made of Red oak and has a coin slot cut in the top. The sides and back are joined by lock miters. It has a real ventage brass Post office box door on the front with a combination lock.
Small keep sake box by Scott Wheat Box is approx. 6” long x 4” wide and 3” tall. It is made of Hickory. Stock is ½” thick. It has a fitted removable lid. The lid has a ½” rabbit all around. This is Scott's first project.
Small box challenge advanced class first runner up. Box is approx. 8” long x 4.5” wide x 1.75” tall. sides are ¼” thick and the top is 3/8” thick. It is made of quarter sawn oak and has finger joint corners and a fitted removable lid.
This box is for holding a deck of braille playing cards. It is made of Sycamore. It measures approx. 4.5” long x 3” wide and 2” tall. It is hard to describe. There are two halves which are reverse images of each other. These two halfs slide together to give an appearance of one solid box. When taken apart it provides finger areas to pick up the cards and the top can be turned over to hold the discard pile.
The box is approx. 9.5” long x 3” wide and 2” tall and the wood is 3/16” thick. The sides are possibly Brown Heart, and the top and bottom is Zebra wood. The top slides off in the long direction. There is a 1/8” dado around 3 sides on the inside. One of the ends is ¼” shorter. The top is 3/16” thick with a 1/16” rabbit around 3 sides. The top slides in the dado slots. The lid is slightly longer with a small lip to use as a finger pull.
This is a small jewelry box. The box is made of cherry, and is approx. 8” long 4.5” wide and 4” high and the stock is 3/8” thick. It is joined by through dovetail corners, removable fitted lid with Mini roman ogee profile around the top. It has a ring tray at the bottom and a 6 compartment removable tray at the top.
This unit is a sugar chest and is called so because in the 1700's, in the south, it was used to actually hold sugar and possibly other spices. Made of quarter sawn Maple.
dining room buffet I made for my daughter. It is made of Cherry but it is stained dark. It is 60 inches wide by 20 inches deep and 36 inches high overall. It has 3 doors of equal width and 1 drawer above the middle door. The 2 outer doors are the full height of the cabinet.
The desk is 64 inches tall and 27 inches wide and about 20 inches deep at the bottom and has three shelves. The frame on each side is a 15 by 75 by 90 degree right triangle made from one-inch cherry boards that are three inches wide and the shelves are � inch cherry, and there is a maple design in the desktop.