52 Boxes in 52 Weeks: Improve Your Design Skills One Box At A Time [Paperback]

What do you get when an accomplished woodworker and senior editor ofFine Woodworkingmagazine sets himself the challenge of designing and building one box a week for a solid year? You get52 Boxes in 52 Weeks, a book dedicated to making relatively simpleyet gracefully elegantboxes that woodworkers of all skill levels will be eager to build.

Readers will begin by learning the fundamental box-making techniques that are applicable to almost every box in the book:

• how to match grain at corners
• how to cut miters
• how to make tops and bottoms
• how to finish a box with shellac, sometimes highlighted with milk paint ( a major trend in finishing right now).

Following that, Kenney reveals some universal design principles that can be used as guidance as readers develop their own design aesthetic.And then, of course, the book transitions to the 52 boxes themselves.

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• Topic. Box making is one of the most popular of all woodworking projects.
• Author platform. Matt Kenney is senior editor of Fine Woodworking, with a devoted following on Instagram and at www.mekwoodworks.com.
• Skill-building format. Projects proceed from simple to complex as you work through the book, allowing you to develop your design aesthetic and at the same time polish up your box-making skills.
• Hot trend in finishing. Several of the boxes feature a milk paint finish, which is one of the hot trends in finishing.

1.Introduction

2.Basic box making techniques

Matching grain at the corners

Cutting miters

Gluing up miters

Tops that don't need hinges

Designing and making pulls

Making a stable bottom

Finishing

3.Box design

Good design begins with good proportions

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