<p dir="ltr">That's one hell of a step up from a cardboard box Joe. Exceptional.</p>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Jan 5, 2017, 2:38 PM WK via Woodworkers <<a href="mailto:woodworkers@lists.sawdusters.org">woodworkers@lists.sawdusters.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg">Joe,<div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">You done well. Beautiful job and I'll bet someone is tickled pink.</div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">Bill</div></div><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg">On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 10:44 AM, Joe Johns via Woodworkers <span dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><<a href="mailto:woodworkers@lists.sawdusters.org" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">woodworkers@lists.sawdusters.org</a>></span> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg"><blockquote class="gmail_quote gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small">So it's December 20th around 1800 hrs and I'm sitting at home enjoying the few short days before Christmas eve.</div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small">The phone rings and in typical fashion I'm scurrying around the house trying to find the damn talk into and listen outta thingy.</div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small">"Good evening."</div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small">"Hey Joey, it's Jacques. Say, I got to thinking this morning about our boy and the state of his room and how much he could use a toy box and I..." I interrupted him.</div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small">"Wait, I see where this is going so lemme guess, you want this before Christmas, right?" We've been friends ever since I moved here to the Mission Valley.</div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small">"Yeah, it doesn't have to be anything fancy, just nail some plywood together and throw some finish on it and..." I interrupted him again.</div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small">"How 'bout I give you a cardboard box instead, I got a couple big ones here and..." He interrupted me.</div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small">"He's been using a cardboard box and it ain't working b'cuz he likes to sit on it and he has..." I interrupted him.</div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small">"How 'bout I do it this way, Jacques, let me wing it?"</div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small">Well, his wife, Jenny, musta been within earshot of the conversation and I can almost see what happened immediately after he hung up with me. She sneaked off to the back porch and called.</div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small">This time I knew where the talk into and listen outta thingy was b'cuz it was still in my hand. "Good evening."</div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small">"Joey, ummm..." Her voice is very alluring...much like Lauren Bacall's and I've known her since forever, too. "Hey Jenny, this is a coinkydink I just got off the phone with Jacques and..." She interrupted me.</div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small">"I know, I heard. Listen, can you make it bigger than the standard size toy box?"</div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small">"Why, certainly. Do you have any other particular requirements?"</div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small">"Yeah, make it so the lid doesn't slam down and crush his fingers and..." I interrupted her.</div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small">"I'm on it. Nothing fancy, no grueling efforts associated with climbing out of a cardboard box and no chance of phalanges being dismembered."</div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small">Now, y'all know I'm not one to do things where it 'doesn't have to be anything fancy'. At the same time, I'm not one to simply cobble something together without a bit of thought. True, this project wasn't "fine woodworking" but I tried to keep it within constraints I was given.</div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small">After the basic box was assembled I put my thinking cap on and said out loud to no one in particular (mainly due to the fact no one else was in the shop), "This thing needs more stuff. But what kinda stuff?"</div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small">While I was pondering on that I walked to the wood stove to throw in a couple chunks 'o wood and glanced at my pirate hanging on the wall and at that precise moment was when my 'what kinda stuff can I add to it' question was answered.</div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small">I ripped home, did a Google search for pirate art, found the perfect picture, printed it then moseyed my way back and this was when Jeff became involved with the project.</div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small">Jeff walked into the shop to see what I was up to. "What the hell are you working on now?"</div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small">"Hey Jeff...ummm, I got this...well...it's a toy box and I'm having some birthing pains. I was given free "wing it" status so now I'm trying to figure out how to plus it and showed him the pirate picture.</div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small">"Well, hell, Joe," He said with delight, "I think that is a perfect idea...how 'bout we burn the edges of it to make it look old?" We did that, glued it on the front and next thing I know he's out the door headed for town.</div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small">Now, I'm back into thinking mode.</div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small">I says to myself, "Self, this is a pretty big toy box and you know every boy has some smaller, more precious things that absolutely must be kept separate, right?"</div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small">It's pretty scary when you answer yourself. "Yeah, so what about it?" I said.</div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small">"Well, what if you was to put in a sliding tray for all them separate precious things?"</div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small">I had some honest to goodness gold doubloons left over from another project I got from the Dollar Store a couple years ago and I glued them authentic plastic doubloons all willy-nilly like. And then came time to decide on the handles.</div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small">I thought, "Pirate...honest to goodness fake plastic gold doubloons...so what kinda handle goes on a treasure chest?" Then it hit me, "I know! Rope handles!" So I called Jeff because I knew he was going to the hardware store - turns out no one in the entire world has sisal or hemp rope anymore. So I milled them from pallet wood, spray painted black then lightly sanded to make them look worn.</div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small">In the pictures only the stain has been applied. Jeff had the idea to take the hinges and grind notches in the edges to make them look forged.</div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small">The day after Christmas the phone rang and once again I'm running around trying to find the damn talk into and listen outta thingy.</div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small">"Merry Christmas!"<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small">"Hey Joey, it's Jacques..." I interrupted him.</div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small">"Hey Jacques, does the boy still have all his fingers?"</div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small">"Ahhhh, yeah, he does, but that ain't why I'm callin' - I should'a had you make two of these." </div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small"><img src="cid:ii_ixklevbo5_1596f7b19074a949" width="435" height="562" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"> <br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small"><img src="cid:ii_ixkhh9m70_1596f164812a244b" width="562" height="316" class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small"><img src="cid:ii_ixkhlblm1_1596f192c1907b3d" width="562" height="316" class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small"><br class="gmail_msg"><img src="cid:ii_ixkhlbm12_1596f192c1907b3d" width="562" height="316" class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small"><br class="gmail_msg"><img src="cid:ii_ixkhlbme3_1596f192c1907b3d" width="562" height="316" class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:small"><br class="gmail_msg"><img src="cid:ii_ixkhlbmq4_1596f192c1907b3d" width="562" height="316" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="m_-8998457757133202414HOEnZb gmail_msg"><font color="#888888" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></font></span></div><span class="m_-8998457757133202414HOEnZb gmail_msg"><font color="#888888" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div>-- <br class="gmail_msg"><div class="m_-8998457757133202414m_6754083171905743218gmail_signature gmail_msg"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg">Joe,<br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">The Twisted Knot Woodshop, "There's never been a classier joint"</div><div class="gmail_msg">Visit the Twisted Knot Woodshop - <a href="http://www.twistedknotwoodshop.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">http://www.twistedknotwoodshop.com</a></div></div></div>
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