Making small boxes

I try to keep an inventory of boxes to fill orders, as they're much less expensive to produce in multiples, and therefore cheaper for customers to buy. When supplies get low, I make more. The photo shows yesterday's labor. I cut and machined parts for nearly 50 small boxes in walnut and linden. Processes involve forming small mortises on the box ends for the front, back and bottoms to fit, then forming matching tenons on the front and back and rabbets along the edges of the bottom panels.

Because these are regular production items, I keep routers set up and ready to serve, thus cutting time that would have been spent setting up, and thus avoiding errors that might occur in setting up tools.

Most Americans know at this point that if defeated in the November election, Donald Trump will claim election fraud and turn his minions loose to restore him to presidential power. It will be like January 6, 2021, but worse. Then with the backing of the Supreme Court, he'll be given unprecedented power to do what ever he likes. Here are a few things he and his Project 2025 plan for us.

• Abandon support for NATO and allow Russia to defeat Ukraine.
• Remove protection for women's reproductive health.
• Cut Social Security "in order to save it."
• End the Affordable Heath care Act that provides health insurance for millions of Americans.
• Round up millions of migrants in camps and export them, threatening our agriculture and construction industries as well as the lives of millions.
• Deregulate industries, and abolish the EPA thereby allowing us to be poisoned by toxic waste and left with nothing we can do about it.
• Withdraw from climate accords and continue to insist that the climate crisis we all face is simply a hoax, and that we should "drill baby, drill," as forests burn, cities are flooded or bone dry and insurance rates soar.
• Increase tariffs on all imported goods, thereby adding greatly to inflation.
• Weaponize the Department of Justice against all political opposition. That means me.
• Appoint more corrupt Supreme Court justices, making sure we're screwed for the next generations.

Some will say, "surely he's just talking and won't really do all that stuff." Let me assure you that he will. given the power of a king by the Supreme Court, he surely will, and must be stopped.

In the meantime, I have little power, so I say what I know to be true and  I make boxes. The box making provides some solace. 

Happy Fourth of July.