Want to improve your skills while making something useful? Make a box! A Tea Box in Goncalo Alves, White Oak and Cherry. There are a lot of tutorials on box making out there, it’s not like the world needs one more, and yet, I think there are a few aspects of such an endeavor that warrant a closer look and an opportunity to gain new skills and sharpen old ones, and to quote a friend of mine, “there’s more than one way to skin a cat”, or make a box, for that matter. Why boxes?

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