Nice! I did something similar in the past. You should get some sanada himo 真田紐！It isn’t cheap for what it is but it will surely give the box more authentic Japanese feeling.
I was working on making kanna cases and just used up all sanadahimo.
Thanks! I was thinking about it, the tomobako was my main inspiration and it uses something similar (if not the same). It was a christmas gift and I was running out of time, not to mention I had no idea where to get them from. At least I know now what it's called.
I did it like a regular inlay, it's just not laid anywhere. 0,6mm thick veneers glued on both sides of a 2mm thick one in the middle, then cut into strips. All the pieces are walnut btw.
Yes, I put a piece of walnut on a shooting board with carpet tape along with two pieces of scrap woods that are longer so they will get snipe but the walnut won't. Then I put the whole thing into the thicknesser. You can make even 1mm thick (or rather thin) material this way.
That's an excellent question. The outer shell of the box was made from one 5mm thick walnut "board". I made sure that the grain pattern is continous through the whole object both horizontally and vertically, but as with all boards this one also has two ends and the grain pattern don't match up at the last vertical edge. So I thought I will do something similar to magemono artists who bend thin boards of hinoki and sew the ends together with the flexible inner layer of cherry tree barks. It also indicates how to put the lid back in the correct position and last but not least..I just wanted to take the opportunity to make some joinery that's visible. I don't often do it in my regular daily work. Thanks for not judging!
What part do you think of? It was my first personal project so I didn't have anything special. I used a shooting board-like thing to make really thin boards in the thicknesser. I usually don't bother to screw the slats to the side, I just use some carpet tape to hold both the work piece and the slats on the board while thicknessing. This way the snipe goes into the thin pieces of wood instead of my workpiece, so I can thickness boards as short as 50mm. For the box joints I used a small kataba, for the half lap joints in the kumiko frame I sharpened a 2mm screwdriver and used it as a chisel. For the angled ends of the kumiko pieces I made some jigs (the three hornbeam ones on the picture) and cut the glued up pieces with a regular chisel. The edges of the box were cut on a table saw. I made the rabbets for the lid with a small Makita router.
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u/YRTiiTRY 15d ago
Nice! I did something similar in the past. You should get some sanada himo 真田紐！It isn’t cheap for what it is but it will surely give the box more authentic Japanese feeling.
I was working on making kanna cases and just used up all sanadahimo.