A Tilt-Top Mitered Box You Can Make Today For Pennies in Scrap Wood. Beginners: hone your skills! 

The sound of that lid when you open is so lovely

Awesome box. I love it, and it is hard to believe your guitar talent is natural!

Love the design and attention to detail.

You have a little over a dozen videos and you are already one of my favorite youtube channels. Your sarcasm and sense of humor is spot on. Talented as well. Don't stop what you're doing! Beautiful little box and I have never thought about using my spacer blocks at the table saw like you'd have and also that is a great little trick to keep the cover up!! Outstanding as always!

Excellent video/demonstration. Thank you.

Have to call you Ferris now! Awesome as slways. Thank you.

Great tips and a cool project to refine your skills. Thanks

Lovely little box and good tips at the end. I agree, making small things is tough and requires more attention to detail, speaking of which. I like that lid stand back detail, I'll file that away in the noggin for future use!

I like patterns on wood.... makes for impressive designs when vanished

Love your video, very well done. Thanks.

Thank you!

Thank you. I really enjoyed this video. I'll be digging through my scrap box starting tomorrow.

Beautiful. I love it. Nice work.

Wow - too small and delicate for my likely, but the final reveal of your inner rock star won me over. Thanks for the beautiful lesson.

Some great points . thank you -

thank you for sharing.

Liked the Ferris Beuller quote at the end! Great video. Small in scale is tough but fun!

Beautiful mate good job

great looking box and LP! I think I now need to build a box

Beautiful work on the box. Wow my guitar playing sounds like yours lol. I love small boxes just because. Thanks for sharing.

I really look forward to your videos. Great points at the end. Looks like I've been putting off building a shooting board for too long.

How cute is this box? Very cute!

Wonderful project, delivery and filming !🛠🎉

Beautiful box. Nice work. But its funny how you are put off by cathedral grain and like straight grain. In this case I agree; the straight grain works perfectly on this box. But in general, especially in larger projects I find straight linear grain quite boring.

Along with wood working I play guitar too. I really like that sunburst guitar. Had a roommate in the Marines in 1979 who had one just like it that I really admired. I have a tobacco sunburst Les Paul and a similar looking Fender Acoustic along with several others and a bass. The 2 I mentioned are my everyday go to guitars. I have a black, white and gray camo pattern Dean Dimebag Darrel V that I never play. Gonna have to change that! My brother got the one that's black with lightening bolts on it. We got them in a set from a guy who was selling them cheap so he could get rid of them and get something else. I also have a kit double neck, 6 string, 12 string that I need to paint up and put together.

GREAT Craftsmanship! Man, I do envy you that table saw and sander.....

You got a Like and Subscribe from the "Uff da" and "You Betcha" designations. Your 45 degree shooting plane setup is fantastic. Thank you for reminding us that not everything needs to be done with power tools. Great tips throughout the video. It's not how many lessons you've had, it's how much you practice.

What an outstanding video. Subscribed!

Really enjoyed this video. Nice woodworking. Nice story telling. Thanks! 👏👏👏🖖

Thanks. I've watched a lot of videos on making small pick boxes, I then picked yours to watch and if I had to pick which box I like the best I would probably pick your pick box as the best before I pick any of the rest.

This was the first video of yours to come up in my feed and I'm really glad I watched it and am now subscribed. I also enjoy building small boxes for all the reasons you gave but didn't know the rabbet trick to create a lid stand. Super cool! Thanks for showing us this neat little build. Good stuff!

i came across this video and liked very much. You explain things clearly. I subscribed. Looking forward to more videos. Thanks.

Nice to see that you have the quintessential white guy shoe collection. Vans for life!!

Beautiful pick box! Version 2 will have a partition for capos. Version 3, your tuner. Version 4…

"Never even had one lesson!" Earned a sub! Nice job BTW!

Beautiful work, and thank you for sharing your knowledge - I learned a lot from this video :-)

,a cool video keep up the great content.. Thank you…… Greetings Jörg

Uff da is now in my lexicon.

Stumbled on your channel looking for miter shooting plane. Really nice content and well done.

First video of yours that has come up on my YT list. Liked it and very happy to subscribe. I’ve been woodworking for over 45 years and still love to watch people showing skills in wood. Hopefully, that will never go. My go to for interior pieces is Natura Onecoat. I gave up using Osmo some time ago as it’s long cure time and need for multiple coats just was…out of date? For large pieces, I want to free up my bench and not have a piece curing for days. Also, quick cure reduces the likelihood of airborne dust ruining the finish. Why Natura Onecoat? I watched a video from the Wood Whisperer late last year when he was reviewing 2 pack hard wax pils. Natura Onecoat was the winner. I had never heard and it turns out, it wasn’t available then here on the UK. But the makers kindly sent me a sample and it’s great. Really very good. From the design of the cans to prevent dents and spills form pouring to the buttery nature of the mix, it’s a pleasure to use. And it’s really, genuinely, One Coat. Just to be awkward, I applied a couple of coats on a piece and it was actually no better than the one coat - and I ended up wiping off much of the second coat because wood had soaked up as much as it could from the first coat. It’s not cheap to buy as a can (although cheaper than Rubio) but it goes such a long way. I calculate my coverage needs when mixing at abput 200ml per 10 square metres. Of course, for your box, you’d need only a few mills tires and actually have more on your application rag and left in the mixing cup than on the piece. I’d suggest trying Natura. They have two products which are designed to retain the most natural tint that is possible. That is, minimal yellowing. The first is Natural White and the next Natural Mist. I’ve only tried Natural White on European oak and it does leave the least-amber tone that I have come across -Osmo or Rubio or Fiddes or whatever.

Blowed away by you gee'tar talents, but bothered immensely by the loose lid. I don't need a 'pick' box as I'm a finger style player of doubtful ability, but will brass hinge pin the lid so it stays with the box. They will make great jewelry gift boxes. Thanks for the instructive vid.

Haha, loved the ending :-) Full of great tips along the way. Liked and subbed.

I subscribed for the music.

Thanks for your video, loved it, I am trying to be an inspired woodworker, starting late in life, and really loved your workshop and tools. Guessing you have had your tools for a long time, your vice I really loved did you make fit yourself and your edge planner too, is that an old one ? Good luck with the guitar lessons, I play but never enough. Thanks Paul

"Never had one lesson" ... I see what you did there. ;)

I like the vibe and skills you show, but man those dados with the tiny piece of wood and your fingers pressing hard on top of the router 😬 Highly recommend you use a thick sacrificial piece between your work and your fingers if you're gunna put direct pressure like that!

Great project to use up those small scraps. And thank you for lots of great tips! What kind of glue do you use to attach the leather?

I think the clarinet works as a better prop with that gag! Perhaps a reed box is in our future? Really pretty little box... Well done sir. (subscribed)

As a Norwegian the "Uff da" caught me completely off guard. Nice work on the box!

4:07 careful man

Nice project…one question: how does the lid keep from falling off, if you turn it upside down, for example? Otherwise, I like the notch at the back of the lid to keep it propped open! Nice touch. Thanks!

10:53 that is indeed a smart ‘hinge’

I was wondering how you were going to handle the thickness of the leather. Instead of compensating for it, you just let the bottom stand proud of the sides. I think that worked out very nice (better than a flush bottom, in my view), but I didn't notice you mentioning it. Was that design feature intentional or just serendipitous? By the way, your "playing" at the end won me over. ❤

I like how you didn't use hardware

I think it would be fun if you made this same or similar with hand tools only

Very impressive box! Thanks for the great video. PS why isn't your beautiful walnut lid attached to the box somehow? It's great that the lid stays vertical when you lift it open, but you might be a tad sad if the lid falls off one day and it would be a shame to damage it.

Where did you purchase your edge plane? I have never seen one like it. Great like project.

I can't do woodworking with a damn but I really want 1 of those boxes for my guitar picks.

Thank you for this video! Where did you get your "leather?"

"...unless you film it, then it takes 6 months." LOL Great project and great video! Subbed.

do you have the directions for the tilt top written anywhere?, was a nifty idea!

unless you film it, … . thanks for doing that.

Sweet little box! Nice work. You should build yourself a guitar!!! Thanks for video!

How long did it take for all of those picks to teleport to the inside of the guitar, and then from there to the far reaches of the galaxy when you tried to shake them out?

I swear those clamps were way too small for that box😂😂😂 Seriously a very beautiful box, very well explained I subbed 👍🏻

I am surprised at how many commenters claim they like the “cathedral” grain. I really don’t think they like them on projects as much as they imagine.

That Lie Nielsen No. 95 bronze plane is a really neat tool! I wish I had one after watching you plane those tiny little pieces. (yikes, $225.00) 😅

Question: That "Edge plane" you use.... where can I get one? Or something similar?

Did you build your shooting boards?

my shop space is similar to yours - what lathe do you have??

Did I see you glue the door panel in to the frame?

Come trim some houses on lake tenkiller with me might learn something

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Great video. Subscribed. You mentioned taking a box-making class. Can you elaborate on that? Cheers

You said Uffda. Lol

😜🤣Not even one lesson! LOL!

Guitars are also made out of wood. 🤔

I'm getting old, because I'm sure I knew the answer. The outside of the pieces will be the inside of the box? Why?

"never had one lesson" made me spit out my drink hahhahahahaha

You you can put your weed in there😂

Your out of your mind,or don't have enough experience to understand that the Cathedral Grain is way prettier than straight grain, Like your build,nice video,but for the love of God don't tell the new woodworkers straight grain is better.

Someone who say “I hate the look of…” is shallow.

Love it but first minute in hes playing with tools I don't have as a beginner

I love the cathedrals- Straight grain is BORING!

Straight grain "beautiful?"

That's not a board it's a stave

2 weeks later.....

Unless you film it, then it takes six months! Ha ha! Isn’t that the truth!

For pennies with 20k in tools lol

The opening line “…beginners hone your skills…” got me really interested. Then I saw that you expect your “beginner” audience to start their woodworking journey with a fully equipped £100,000 workshop. Which they can then use to make “a beautiful box for just a few pennies”. Hmmmm….

What is wrong with cathedral look? Beauty is a perception. I find them more attractive as they give unique character of design.

Does your wife know how much money you have tied up in your hobby?

I’m sorry but it really cuts into your credibility when you use a paring chisel as a firmer. Self-taught?

I hate when woodworkers such as yourself say the cathedrals as a statement of fact. I myself like the look of the cathedrals. Many other channels say the same thing about the cathedrals. Just my opinion.

4:06 phew, that got a little hairy back there.