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Attempting to create a box with fitted lid

Originally published for paying Patreon members on 2019-03-31. Republished here after a 90-day patron-first period.

I broke the container I keep coffee beans in, so I'm going to attempt to turn a wooden box with a tightly fitted lid. I cut out seven circles from pieces of poplar, cherry, alder, and mahogany I had lying around. The mahogany is a story. Some friends of ours met when they were in the peace corps in Africa 60 years ago. When they returned to the US, they had boxes built to ship their belongings. It turned out that the boxes were made of mahogany, so they saved the wood -- and gave it to me now.