"Tim McMurdo" <jod### [at] wohrrcom> wrote in message 
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> Excellent work.

Thanks!  :-)

> My father and I have made hundreds of these from size 000 to
> 9. The wood is excellent.
>
> On those that we make, the pins holding the top and bottoms inside their
> respective bands are made of wood. Also, the small nails used to form the
> bands are copper.
>
> Those are just nit picking, because I think you work is fantastic.
>

I have a couple of books that I used for reference photos, both of which had 
lots of new boxes, as well as Shaker antiques.  I tried to create a box that 
looked the way a new box may have appeared circa 1850's.  To do that, I 
combined some things from the old and the new.  I did notice that most (or 
at least some) of the new boxes used the wooden pins, but most of the older 
boxes used metal tacks, as far as I could tell.

Some quick Googling makes me think you're right about the copper tacks.  I 
should change to a copper color.  Also, I see a lot of antique boxes with 
what appear to be wooden pins/tacks for the fingers.  I wonder if their 
methods switched at some point.

-- 
Jeremy
www.beantoad.com

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