Puzzle Boxes includes a DVD that contains more
than 90 minutes of information. Author Jeff Vollmer shows you how to
set up your band saw and how to cut, glue up, sand, fit
and finish these amazing puzzle boxes.
Have you ever thought inside the box? These bandsawn
boxes could be the most intriguing and fun
projects you've ever made.
Author Jeff Vollmer describes his boxes as key-and-slide —
cut a dovetail key, cut a slider piece, cut another
key, cut another slider. That's the puzzle or "combination"
you use to get to the chamber or heart of the box.
Then you cut out the guts of the box to create a
chamber. But wait, there's more! Then you cut another
box from the guts, then another box or drawer from
those pieces, then another and maybe another until
things get too small to handle safely.
Any type wood can be used to make these boxes—
wood with holes, cracks, splits, insect and wormholes,
spalting and burls. Jeff calls these flaws "opportunities"
to become creative.