Turn lidded boxes on the lathe

This blog is about turning lidded boxes on the lathe.

I mounted a 3 X 3, 6 inch long pieces of spalted maple. I turned this round to about 2 1/2 inch diameter. Turned round using a roughing gouge. The block is held in place by a spur center and a live center on the other end.

At his point, I start to shape the lid and mark the lid location.

I use a parting to to cut a grove, where my lid will later be cut off.

Here the lid is being shaped. I used a skew to do most of this shaping, You can also see, I have made a indented grove on the top to be held in place using my four jaw chuck.

I use a four jaw chuck from Teknatool.

I have remounted the lid after cutting it off using a parting tool.

I am using the mini sorby hollowing tool for hollowing out the lid.

This is a great little tool and the handle is inter changable to use a skew and a spindle gouge.

Here is where I hollow out the body and size the opening for the lip to fit just right. I use both a caliper and trail and error to get the perfect snug fit on the lid.

I latter turn an ebony knob and glue into the top. This a nice little afternoon project. I use semi green wood. My lathe is a teknatool Nova. Most of my tools are sorby.