Love the box. It turned out great, like l was sure it would. Im a retired master goldsmith and l have a wee tip for hard soldering multiple pieces without them soldering together. I always painted the surface that l didnt want solder to bleed to with a thin layer of china white or zinc white paint. And make sure you dont put any flux where you dont want the solder to go, less is more. That has always worked for me on very intricate pieces. Just remember to only get the white and the flux where you want it and let the white dry before soldering your pieces together. Give it a try l think you will be surprised. I learned this from an old jeweler when l was young, lm 70 now and there might be better ways to stop bleed over now but this always worked well for me. 👍🏻

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Woodworking suggestion: a patio umbrella. The cost of material might be cheaper than buying a good one in a store, which is rare as you already know. The options are unlimited. Could add in some kumiko or even a little machining along with a lot of your other tools for making hinges and large wood threader and etc. It's also scalable for different purposes; and store bought ones don't last long which could make what you make far superior depending on design

Very nice job. Box making is one of the tasks that apprentice jewelers are given to hone their skills. To keep hard solder from going where you don't want it you can apply a solder resist. Some jewelers use liquid paper or other kinds of white out. The traditional resist is the pigment yellow ochre. It's available in small amounts from any jewelers supply house. You mix it with water into a very thin paste and paint it where you don't want the solder to flow.

1/2inch shank can be put in a 13mm Collet. these Collets usualy can Clamp 1mm below there nominal diameter

If it means anything, you've inspired me to get out in the workshop and start making things. I've started with simple boxes and keep cool when I make mistakes. Thanks!

Really nice finished result and thanks for leaving in the various hiccups along the way. I'd be interested to see what sort of engraving you'd do on that.

All i could think of while watching this was "this has to lead to a dove tailed, plane base with wood infill, like those really classy DIY hand plane kits" - it's the perfect crossover project between the metal shop and the wood shop... And i mean.. anyone building a wood canoe could always benefit from having another high quality hand plane floating around...

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Next time, use graphite where you don't want the solder to flow. A carpenter's pencil will suffice. Rub it good and hard where you don't want the solder to go. Lovely piece. You can age brass with any brass black cold blue type fluid, or just use a strong degreaser (like engine cleaner), warm up the brass and dip it. It will darken and form a caramel-honey translucent oxide layer that looks awesome.

Those tiny metal clamps in the beginning are so cute!

Nice work as always! Forgive me if someone already mentioned this but ER40 collets are designed to grip a whole millimeter smaller than their size so the first one you tried would actually work

You just reached 1M subs Neil, huge congratulations! So we’ll deserved. 🎉🎉🎉

Nice work! Suggestion for future soldering work: If you have areas where you don't want solder to flow, paint it with White Out. There are other, more professional materials for this purpose, but White Out is cheap, easily available, and has worked great for me on similar hinge projects.

Gee Neil, you really are human!!! Thanks!!!

I have to say, I really really enjoy your work! I mean I really do, the way you explain your processes, the cuts on the video, the projects you undertake….all of it. Thank you, I mean that very much, thank you for putting this content out for us all to enjoy and please don’t ever stop.

Glad to hear the kayak is coming along nicely. I'm sure I speak for everyone when I say take your time to do it right and we're happy to get this video in the interim.

When I read the title of the video, I was very skeptical that this could work. Now I see that not only did it work, but it also looks very good. The box is beautiful and I am very impressed. Best regards from Germany 👋

That turned out very well there. Can't wait to see more videos soon. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friend. Keep making. God bless.

The end result is simply beautiful and the process along the way is very inspiring.

Beautiful work, Neil!!! ❤️❤️❤️👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

As an aspiring metalworker I really enjoyed watching you fixing your mistakes. I'm amazed how well the end result looked given the pitfalls your experienced a long the way. Well done! In order to make a perfect box, you've got to make a decent one first. :)

Pask is the Aussie word for patience :D . Nice job !!!!

I think you should put a small flower, write a short poem, and a small gift, and give to your wife. Engraving it with the date will make it all that much more special to her.

Love it. Reminds me of something my grandfather would have had.

You da man! That is a nice lil box! love the hidden hinge

Love your absolute honesty while fitting things together. Gives inspiration to us who make mistakes on pretty much every project.

Wonderful box, even more wonderful patience! Such tight brass and copper joints bond just great with plain lead-tin solder, or low-temperature low silver content solder like Stay- Brite. No mapp or acetylene needed!.

It is only the second video I've seen, but I have noticed you point out every mistake, even if it doesn't show up in the end product. I love that, it is great for people to know what to look out for and will make them more confident in their own ability, knowing mistakes are fine if you know how to deal with them. Almost nothing anyone does is free from mistakes, what separates a master from a novice is knowing how many mistakes you can leave in and still have a great end product.

Beautiful work, Neil! Amazing looking box!!! 😃 I'm going to search for the other video to watch as well! Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

I like makers marks/names for all the right reasons. I think it would be cool you showing you’re mark on all your project. Just my opinion.

Wow, Neil. Everytime you say "I'm gonna give it a go" you produce an absolute gem. I am not a metal worker, but I watch pro & amateur metal workers here on YT and you fit right in with the pros. Everyone makes mistakes. You are brave enough to show them. Because you then show a solution. Mate, you are an absolute joy to watch. I could see this being a lovely little jewelry box. But the box itself is a jewel. Thanks for sharing this beauty with us all.

All second the comments about showing the mistakes not because you’re showing you’re human, but showing how to actually recover from these mistakes. Fantastic!

That will make a nice box for the dresser to keep wedding bands when sleeping.👍👍

I watch billions of different woodworking/crafts youtube channels, but Neil yours is definitely my favourite! Just the perfect blend of video editing, your talking, the cool projects you do, and the absolute skill you show. Keep em coming!

You’re definitely mastering skills left and right these days! I’m impressed by your machining skills and as always impressed by your imagination and follow-through! Thank you as always! -CY Castor

Cool project, looks great! Appreciate you leaving the slip ups in the video 👍

Very nice. I miss my time in the Canadian Navy when I had access to lathes and milling machines. Fortunately, I can live vicariously through KZfaq videos like yours.

Your projects are always so inspiring, great craftsmanship

Hi, really nice work and box. Especially like the stop motion at the end ;-). Thanks for sharing. Weekend Stuff

Great project! Ship that thing off to Uri Tuchman and let him have a go at the etching. You will not be disappointed. He's a tremendous artist.

Very nicely done Neil! That little box turned out looking great & I wouldn't change a thing. 👍👍

Nice work! And you had the privilege of slicing your left hand too!

Hello Neil, Thank you! You are just a continuous source of inspiration. You are giving off "you can do it too" vibes and I am grateful. I'm sure I'm not the only one. I have a feeling that too many people think that one can only either buy things or that one must be skilled and equipped beyond normal people's reach, to create/get something beautiful to enjoy, or gift. The finished box is very nice and the click of dovetails sliding one into another is satisfying. Remembering your padlock video and now this - would you consider to create a puzzlebox? Thank you very much!

Always impressed with the hidden hinge! I’m going to go back and watch the wooden one again, maybe make something myself.

I love your calm manner when some doesn't go right and the box looks great I would leave it as it is

Great workmanship as always. Bravo. You set very high standards for yourself. Give the box to your missus, I'm sure she'll be happy 😃

Nice box. Now you have somewhere to keep your new imperial collets.

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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Your patience for fiddly stuff is beyond that of most people. I don’t know if it’s the editing that makes you seem calm and genuinely unfazed by mistakes or if you are like that in real life. Either way, it’s genuinely impressive. Another great vid. Thank you.

This video made me yearn for a decent milling machine + lathe in my own workshop🥲!......great workmanship, inspiring as ever. Love from Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 ❤

Love it…..what a great project, and as always, your skills are impeccable. 👍👍👍

A kumiko etching on just the lid would really put your signature on it. Beautiful work, as always.

I saw footage of a Queenslander with a jumper on! 🤣 Love your work 👍

Love seeing the milling projects coming in! Not sure if you wanted to fly cut for the look and not just to thin it out, but for the 3.2 mm slot you can cut the centre channel with a 3mm cutter then offset the cutter 0.1mm both ways. This will also act as a finish cut for the walls as they are often a bit gnarly with a full width slot due to tool deflection and chip evacuation.

Beautiful work, as always. Definitely have to stamp your mark in the inside bottom just so everyone knows it's yours. As for what to do next, since you enjoyed using the milling machine so much, I think you should use that milling machine so more to cut a whole slew of grooves in the box and then do a Kumiko inlay with some stainless wire to match the side pieces! 😁

I didn’t know how I’d like that brass and steel when you started….but I love it!

Beautiful work. Personally, I'd polish the whole thing. I think this would be a great idea for an engagement ring box or some kind of precious momento box (with added padding, of course).

I've learned the art of patience from watching Neil.

It's a nice neat little brass and steel box.

I am always amazed at your talent for learning, backed up by your capacity for hard and sometimes tedious work. You always fast-mo your filing, for instance, which makes it seem easier, and yet your precision makes it obvious you take a lot of time to make things right.

Enjoyed…great example of craftsmanship

That is absolutely beautiful. I've never seen anyone use metal in this way. Thank you for sharing this neat project.

Nice project & great piece. Use it to keep foreign coins, or small pieces of rare exotic incense woods. Or that single lock of a long-lost lover's hair...

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cool work - use a spring hinge - twisted spring steel rod so it springs closed - as used in old cigarette cases - I'd polish it shiny and lacquer it - after engraving/lasering your logo

Neil: “Doesn’t need to be a perfect fit…” Also Neil: Make a perfect fit

As far as what to do with it, I'd throw dice in it. Although I'd probably want simple latch if i made one for that purpose. It does look like it may be big enough to hold index or playing cards though. Perhaps even recipe cards. Desk top pencil case, eraser box. Key box Whiteboard markers maybe. Might even hide the good candy lol

Very cool to see the transfer of skills between materials.

Superb Pask! Your desire to learn and learn from your mistakes is inspirational

Great box to hold all your flex shaft burs 👍👍👍

You should cut a steel kumiko pattern in one of the faces and then cut brass pieces for all the holes and peen them over on both sides before machining it flat. That would be pretty amazing if you could pull that off!

Dimensional accuracy. This is why I prefer to work in metals. I can polish something down to plus or minus five ten thousandths of an inch which can be both quite satisfying and quite a nuisance all depending on the time schedule.

Always amazing to see you do these little projects! Quite inspiring to budding makers like myself.

This is so pretty! All I see is a jewelry box, perhaps with some padding on the inside? So well done! Also super satisfying, relaxing, and motivating how you seemingly calmly go through the motions. 💕

Love the fact you poke holes in the finished product, I would love to be able to make something with that much precision

Ngl... I completely forgot about this channel until this video popped up in my feed (TvT)

I love how the hinge virtually disappears when the lid is closed 😍

Great job !!! If you want to prevent your brazing filler to go somewhere , you can protect this part with ochre gouache paint , it works pretty well, I often use this technique in my own work . Anyway your result is really impressive !

That's a mighty large snuff box!🤣

Exquisite little box mate! I would leave the box as is and allow patina to arrive then decide on a finish. As for a purpose, I think maybe be used strictly as inspiration & example. Or maybe as a container for earth magnets ... Hahaha just a thought. Well done. Well done indeed!

Love your box project. I'd leave it as is and let a natural patina set in. Thanks

Love the determination and attitude

That is gorgeous!! I love the hidden hinges, so thank you for sharing!!!! I think etching something on the top would be cool but it is also beautiful as is.

Very nice result regardless. I love that you documented and discussed the mistakes made and how you fixed them, not a very common thing for which I applaud you immensley.

Pretty cool project Neil as always. I reckon finishing it by hetching sounds good mate but it depends on what the majority say I guess lol great video mate 👍🏼👍🏼

Very cool little Box Thanks for the video Make a Dove tail bit And put it in the Box

Top job good sir. Your skills and patience never cease to amaze me.

Surrounding the box with fire brick will help it heat up better when soldering. Very nice project though with beautiful joinery.

Looking good. I like that look. Maybe a little scotchbrite, but no polishing. Also those ER-Collets (unlike 5C or R8 collets) have a wide range (1mm), so you probably can hold that cutter in one of them.

Thanks for sharing another fine project.. I really like your videos. There's a lot of variety.. you show your mistakes and the ways you perceiver and you discuss other options along the way.. ... I just wanted to share some knowledge to anyone who may care, that there's a black brazing flux available that will allow you to braze stainless steel with brass or bronze or copper or silicone carbide or whatever it's called (looks like bronze).. It's a very aggressive flux that will irritate the skin and eyes as well as lungs if not used in well ventilated area..

One note about the ER collets you're using. They are designed for a range of sizes, typically their nominal size and smaller. So if you have a full set of metric collets, you can also hold inch sizes. A 13 mm collet would hold 1/2" just fine. They are designed with a taper on both the front and back, which allows them to close concentrically. Just thought it would help.

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A very nice box! I would like to see it after many years of aging. Some filigree along the edges and corners would enhance the look of it for me. Well done to you sir 👏 👍

I appreciated seeing the mistakes and successes as well

Love the work you did on this piece! I really appreciate that you keep your mistakes and fixes in your videos. I think some engraving or etching on the box would be fabulous.

that is very cool and the hinges are amazing.

Etch, "Pask's Greatest Creation" on the outside top, put a mirror inside on the bottom, and give it to your kids to see them smile as they open it and look inside.

Gorgeous piece! 👏👏👏

What a sweet-looking box! I like the plain look, but it would look awesome with some gearing etched into it. Great project!