I dropped my miter gage and wanted to check it to make sure it was still square. After I checked it I decided to go ahead and use the pieces of wood I used to check it with to make a small box as I hadn't made one in awhile. With no idea as to what this box was going to look like I re cut the pieces into 4 equal sized mitered sides, then ran a groove in the bottom and a rabbit on top, cut a bottom to fit in the grooves and glued it up. while the glue was drying I cut a square piece for the top ran a rabbit around the bottom and cut a bevel on the sides. So I had my box but thought it was just to plane so I decided to add some splines so after digging through the scrap pile I decided to use some left over purple heart. Grabbed my spline jig and cut for the splines and glued them in. Then I decide it needed a handle on top but I didn't want something big or long, so after some deliberation a decided to cut some bevels on the end of a 3/4" x 3/4" piece of Ph and square cut it at the top of the bevels, I had my handle. I finish sanded every thing and glued the handle on and was going to finish it but decided it was still to plane looking, but didn't really know what else I wanted or could do to it to make it less plane. After some more thought I decide to put legs on the corners but didn't have enough 3/4 Ph to make four legs unless I ripped a strip off a wide piece. Not wanting to rip up one of my wide pieces I decided to go ahead and finish it the way it was. Then it hit me, make legs out of some thin stock I had used to make the splines out of. I made a cardboard template and cut four legs, a little filling and some sanding and I had my four legs. I put the legs on and applied the finish. Anyway sorry about the rambling I dropped my miter gage and ended up with this;
Oh well at least I have pictures.
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