hello and welcome to japanese tool box show #3 i am making traditional japanese toolboxes in the last show i completed a tool box and now i will show you some other toolboxes that i have made. this is the first tool box that i made. it's a beautiful design, very simple styling and i've added feet to it. you can see them here. they are screwed on and will protect the bottom.
and i made a sliding tray for inside it slides back and forth and it lifts out. it has a ship lapped bottom i like to use trays on my workbench to keep my smaller tools together let me show you a tray i am using now these are some of the tools i have been using so it will be nice to have a tray inside my toolbox.
there is nothing else inside my toolbox no storage compartments at all i will only use it to hold the tools i need for each job so it is best to keep it very simple the lid fits either way but it fits better in one direction i put a number "one' here and another "one" there so i know how to place the lid
and the locking wedge has a right side up because has a bevel so i put a number one here so that i know which side goes up a number "one" because i've made more than one box and this way i don't get my boxes mixed up let's have a look at the box i made last time here it is. it's the same as the first box but the bottom is different it has tongue and groove boards
to allow for wood expansion the other box is a single board but it is better to allow for wood movement this box has a danish oil finish on it. easy to apply and repair. this has a wipe-on poly finish. it's a bit different but i like them both you can see i marked the number "two" here and the number "two" on the lid
i'm so like martha stewart with these things. the wedge is numbered also and look what i have inside the box it is the smaller box i made for show #1 it also has feet now it's a good project for beginning woodworker it's a good project for a young person.... or an old person it's good for storage and good as a gift
this also has a danish oil finish once again i made my marks and i marked the wedge also and i made another box it's the same size it's two-thirds the size of the larger one i used a different joinery method the corners are mortises and tenons this is how it joins together
these are the mortise and tenons and it joins together like this it's a very decorative feature the finish is shellac i mixed and applied shellac in saw till show #11 in that show i used blonde shellac on this box i used garnet shellac i will show you the difference this is super blond shellac
it has a very light color this is the more common amber shellac it has an orange color and this is garnet shellac. it's very dark it looks like coffee but on the box it looks much lighter in color i was surprised. this is the garnet and i put four layers on this box i expected it to be much darker
very interesting this is joaneen's favorite so it is now her box. there is something in this box. what could it be? let's find out. it's another tool box! let's take it out. this is half the size of the first box. this is finished with milk paint i've used milk paint before on this show
real milk paint, the oldest paint known to man..... and women it's very durable and colorfast. it is mixed from powder. easy to apply, non-toxic this has three layers of paint the first layer is white it is a very thin layer on top i put two layers of green and where i sanded through
you can see the white paint. it looks antique. on top of the paint i applied a clear varnish and that gives it a burnished look as you might have guessed i made another box. let's have a look this is my favorite i like the two toned look the texture and color of the wood with the color of the milk paint
i like the colors together very much i call this the country squire look. if you don't know what a country squire is google the image and you'll understand why i like it so much. there is something in this box too i have no idea what it is look here. another toolbox this is 1/3 the size
made from bubinga. a wood i never used before. beautiful wood. very hard and very heavy. look at this beautiful wood that is the natural color beautiful red and the grain is amazing i couldn't find cut nails small enough so i used wire brads. i also used glue just to make sure i'll talk about the glue in a moment
there it is. 1/3 the size of the first box. where am i going to put all of these i'm getting boxed in alright what's next? here is another box this is limed oak. i was looking for a new way to finish my boxes and my friend andy who is a woodworker suggested limed oak. i didn't know much about it
but it is very nice, so thank you andy. a white pigment is rubbed into the open grain of the oak it is a very old method and was used to preserve wood and keep insects from boring into the wood caustic lime or white lead was applied to the wood the liming wax we use today contains no lead and it's safe to use but it looks very nice now you don't suppose i've taken this one step further
look at this it's a japanese matchbox i think this is 1/6th the size of the first box it is made of granadillo wood and this is figured maple can you see the little closing wedge that comes out? no, there is nothing else inside i realize i've gotten extreme here but it was a lot of fun to make these when i made the smaller boxesi had trouble clamping them together to
drill my pilot holes and i found a clamp that i like and it works very well it is called a corner clamp it is two clamps at right angles you clamp each piece of the corner it holds it so i can drill holes and glue it i recommend this for making the smaller boxes now i wanted a glue that would harden quickly i didn't want to wait a long time for it to dry
i thought might use "super glue" or ca glue but ca glue hardens too quickly and then i found this glue called nexabond and it comes in three different hardening times this is "short" and it is the quickest there is also "medium" and "long" you can select the hardening time that you need i was surprised the label doesn't say how many minutes "short" is or how many minutes "medium" or "long" are
but on the internet i found that "short" is one to three minutes "medium" is three to five minutes and "long" is five to seven minutes write that down because you won't find that information on the container it is a good product but i don't like the labeling ok, i think i've covered everything there is one more box i want to show you joaneen made a box just like this one all by herself she sawed the wood and clinched the nails so let's have a look at it
and here it is. she did very well. beautiful work, and she's still deciding on a finish. so that is a total of ten boxes we've made. and i hope we've inspired you to make a box of your own two weeks ago we went camping, we do this every summer and we took our camera to show you some trees growing near our campsite that i want you to see we're in trap pond state park in lower delaware
the atlantic ocean is 30 miles that way and the chesapeake bay is 30 miles that way and i'm standing next to a bald cypress tree they grow from florida to texas, and along the eastern seaboard this is the northern most stand of bald cypress trees in north america the wood is very decay resistant it is used for decking, siding, shingles docks, and even cabinetry these trees have interesting root structures these are called knees and you see them everywhere
here are a few more of them the knees help to support the tree in flood prone soil they grow in swampy areas that doesn't support them well and these knees come up from the roots and help to support the tree after hurricanes, sometimes the only trees still standing are the bald cypress trees i thought you would like to see them where they grow they live about 600 years and nearby is a tree
that is almost 600 years old and innorth carolina are some trees that are almost two thousand years oldand that is very impressive bald cypress trees. this is a loblolly pine tree. it is also called southern yellow pine southern yellow pine is a lumber category consisting of the short leaf, the long leaf,the slash pine and the loblolly it's a hard pine, good for construction and as most woodworkers know it makes a good workbench, but the interesting thing about this tree it is the best wood for making roller coasters
how interesting is that? so i thought you would like to see this tree and now we will go for a bike ride and then we will sit by the campfire that was a fun trip and this is the end of our show next time we will make something else thanks for visiting and see you next time ok that's a wrap