Oaken Box from a Log

Last year I took a class on early-American woodworking. On the first day of class we all went outside where 5 or 6 quartered oak logs were waiting for us. We each picked a section and using mallets, fros, and hatchets split and roughed out four planks. These planks were then sawn and planed to appropriate dimensions for a box.

The picture above was actually taken to show the chisels to a friend (who refurbished them for me) but it shows the box quite nicely. This is one of the best things I have made out of wood, and aside from the pine plank top and bottom (sawn by the school) it was almost all done by hand and from the wild wood.

Some day I hope to take and post more pictures.