The box is really built as 2 stacked boxes- the bottom one is 1/2" thick basswood ( 7" wide) and the top one is 3/4" butternut (3" wide). The boxes are joined with 5mm x 30mm domino tenons (12 of them). The rosewood strip reinforces the handles. If you look closely, you'll notice that the dovetails joining the boxes are cut opposite for each box so that after assembly, all corners are locked together. There are 2 hickory runners fastened to bottom that extend past the box and lock one end into the wood rolling base. The other end is locked in with a 5/32" brass pin. The base is from an old office chair refitted with roller blade wheels. Inside dimensions for the box are 27" x 16 1/2" and takes a standard mattress and fitted sheets that you can get from the baby box co.
April Shows
April will be a busy month for me. I'll be showing my work along with my homies at the Lexington Woodworker's Guild show in the gallery at The Lexington Arts and Crafts Society (130 Waltham St.) from April 14 - 29. On April 20 - 22nd I'll be at the CraftBostonSpring Show at The Cyclorama put on by the Boston Center for the Arts (https://www.societyofcrafts.org). At the end of April (28 &29th) I'll be participating in Lexington Open Studios. A chance to see my work in person.
made a frame saw, finally. red meranti w/15tpi pull saw blade
Bench for the Lexington Community Center #sammaloof
So I was approached to design a bench that the Lexington Woodworker's Guild would build and donate to the Lexington Community Center. The design is really an extended chair. The idea for the middle legs was stolen from the conoid chair that I built last year. A half dozen of us built it over the winter last year in the Woodworker's Guild shop, a real fun project.
tiny little frame saw
I have a half dozen different metal frame coping saws but they are really inadequate, for the most part, because the blades can't be tightened enough to keep them straight. So I made one in the same way that you might make a much larger frame saw. It is about 7in. x 7in.