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Finally doing something besides bicycle riding

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Finally doing something besides bicycle riding

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Finally doing something besides bicycle riding

Dick Coers

Although not a lot. Just turned over 800 miles on the odometer since the last week of May. That doesn't include the mileage on my comfort traditional bike which doesn't have any instrumentation. So well over 1,000 miles.

Our turning club was asked to participate in a charity silent auction event this fall. The theme is boxes since the local flat woodworking club is also participating. So turned up 6 to donate. Back row left to right is red maple, mulberry burl with a little rose engine work on the lid, then ash. Front row is all hard maple with laser engraving on the first two ring boxes. Not high design, but hopefully will bring at least $20 each.


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Re: Finally doing something besides bicycle riding

Roger Chandler

First rate work, Dick! I really like the ones on the front row! All are well done, but your embellishments on the lids just set them off.

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Re: Finally doing something besides bicycle riding

William Duffield

Nice; every one of them.

I have a rhetorical question: Why do we call them boxes? Why not "jars" or "cans"? But, maybe that's only confusing to a flatwoodworker.

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Hat boxes have always been round

Dick Coers

old cheese boxes were also round, (but they were also rectangular) just guessing here.

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Re: Hat boxes have always been round

William Duffield

There's always an exception to the rule. I saw an antique triangular hat box last month at the Chester County Historical Society. It had a three cornered hat in it. :D

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#6

In the British aisle I assume?


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Re: In the British aisle I assume?

William Duffield

I took a pic, just in case I ever wanted to reproduce it, but I didn't record anything about its provenance. The hat itself is obviously a prop, and not nearly as old as the box.

If I were to venture a guess, I would say mid-18th Century Philadelphia.


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Re: You were probably

Stuart Johnson

the kid in Sunday school that asked if Eve had a belly button.

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#9

mounted to the wall?

John K Jordan

The triangular box would be really hard to make on the lathe! How about kind of round boxes? Woodturners long ago made lots of oval boxes. Shakers did too.

And are those some kind of mounting lugs near the front of the triangular box? If so, what purpose would it serve to to fasten a hat box to the wall? Seems like gravity would distort the hat brim. Maybe the box was made for something other than a hat.

I searched google for "antique triangular wooden box" and got some images. One was a box for a brass sundial. Could the box have been mounted on a table in a ship?

JKJ

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Re: You were probably

William Duffield

Since she was a placental mammal, of course she had a belly button. She may have been the only Sumerian female of breeding age to have survived the supereruption of Toba about 74000 years ago. :D