shaker boxes

Those are beautiful!

Johanna in Placitas, New Mexico

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Kevin French, Antrim NH

>Great job.

I bought SWMBO a stack of unfinished ones for Xmas hoping to get her into a little WW'n, she didn't bite. But at the mill they had a stack of a dozen, made out of Birds Eye Maple. This was one beautiful stack of boxes. I think they wanted $2500 for the stack.

Perfect!

Jim Shaver - Oakville, Ontario

>Hi e,

Wonderful looking Shaker boxes, I love the classic form.

This is timely inspiration for me, I am taking a two day Shaker Box making class at the Burlington Lee Valley store this week coming, I hope mine are half as nice as yours!

Thanks for posting them.

take care,

Jim

HiJack. Wish Burlington VT had a Lee Valley Story

Greg Betit, Crown Point NY

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Store

Greg Betit, Crown Point NY

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Anticipation...

Darrell in Oakville

>Nice boxes!

A bunch of us from the Oakville/Burlington area are taking a shaker box class next Friday & Saturday at our local Lee Valley store. I've been perusing Ralph's site, reading his shaker box tutorial, and I am going to start assembling my own set of tools this week. Can't hardly wait...

Darrell

Wood Hoarder, Blade Sharpener, and Occasional Tool User

Tools??

Jim Shaver - Oakville, Ontario

>Hey Darrell,

Making Tools?? talk to me buddy, :-)

Can you pass along his url for the turtorial please.

take care,

Jim

Re: Tools??  *LINK*

Bruce, a MN Galoot

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Ralph Brendler's shaker box tutorial

Re: Tools?? *LINK*

Darrell in Oakville

>Hi Jim,

Well, if I'm gonna make more of these things I'd better have the equipment for it. I have to make a tray for boiling bands (better find a sheet metal shop for that), forms and shapers, an anvil, and I think I have a hand grinder somewhere that I can convert into a disk sander. I have a veneer scraper and bandsaur for making my own bands (well, *maybe* my saw can be tuned to do that, we shall see), tack hammers and small drills.

See you in school, Jim. Maybe we can hang out together at recess, eh?

Darrell

Wood Hoarder, Blade Sharpener, and Occasional Tool User


Ralph's Shaker Box Page

thanks everyone! *LINK*

e

>if you get a chance to take Ralph's class, do so! he's a great guy and a very good teacher.

here's another web site -- john wilson, who is the only one in the world to make the tacks. he's got a class booklet that Ralph references.

other than the tray, i've gotten all my jigs made for round 1-4. now just have to learn how to make the copper steam tray!


john wilson

Re: Tools??

Bruce, a MN Galoot

>The shop that did my basement plumbing bent up my tray gratis. OTOH, I spent enough for one day's labor for them to owe me that much.

Bruce

Very nice

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>Great job. They look very pretty. Is there any finish on them?

Re: Very nice

e

>thanks -

used a danish oil ... liberon

Thank you!

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

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Re: HiJack. Wish Burlington VT had a Lee Valley St

Dave T

>Check out the class schedule at Fletcher Farms

in Ludlow, Vermont...they're on the web at

http://www.fletcherfarm.com and they have a

shaker box class coming up in late July.

It's a long weekend of nothing but woodworking

and pleasant company and you end up with a set

of SIX boxes. I took it a few years back, and

had a blast.

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William Duffield, on the Cohansey

>I have a friend here who boils wood, for woven baskets, not shaker boxes, but the principle is the same. He doesn't use anything fancy or custom-made. There's lots of sheet metal stuff that will hold water. I think he made one of his boilers from about three feet of rain gutter.