This is a box that I was encouraged by my father to build for my stepmother for her sewing machine. I made this during my first years of playing around in my basement with my tools. It is made from a scrap section of panel waynes coating, strapping and a piano hinge. With a maple board for the top, I finished it with a dark cherry stain and a polyurethane. I learned here a technique for achieving that soft feel that polyurethane can give a surface, which is by finely sanding it with a 500 or 600 course sand paper. I also learned that a brown paper bag holds a very similar result when used to finish sand a surface. Fun little project for someone who was learning the very beginner-ropes of carpentry!
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