Woodworking | Building a wooden box and reverse glass gilding

In this video, I build a box out of oak and gild the back of a sheet of glass. The second part of the video is a little unusual for my channel (and it´s not "only handtools"), but at least there's a wooden box :) Before I studied design, I trained as a sign painter and neon sign maker. However, I only worked in this profession for about four years and haven't made a glass sign since. A few months ago, the YouTube algorithm showed me a video from Paul's channel ( @happygilder – check him out, he's a great guy and has awesome videos!) and I immediately wanted to try it again after about 23 years. The gilding may look good to the layman, but from a sign painter's point of view, it turned out relatively disastrous. I used far too much gold, had shaky hands, the pane wasn't properly clean, which is why the gilded surface doesn't shine as brightly as it could, the glue chipping could have gone better, and so on and so forth. But all in all, I'm very satisfied. It was a lot of fun and I have one more wooden box (you can never have enough of those!). As always, I don't explain anything in this video. If you have any questions, feel free to write to me – I usually respond to every comment! Cheers! 00:00 Intro 00:15 Building the lid 01:57 Cutting the groove for the glass 02:28 Beveling and cutting the miters 04:04 Building the main body 05:19 Building the bottom 08:38 Glue up | Assembly 11:11 sawing the lid off 11:28 Installing the lock 12:28 Brass hinges 13:25 Staining the wood 13:52 Prepairing the wooden glass-cover 14:40 Finishing with BLO 14:58 Installing lock, handles and keyhole-cover 15:38 Plotting the vinyl stencil for gilding 16:33 Applying vinyl onto the glass 16:54 Removing excess vinyl 17:09 Satinize the glass 17:35 Prepare for glue chipping 17:47 Preparing the hide glue 18:42 Removing excess hide glue 19:01 Glue chipping 19:30 Preparing for enamel 20:15 Painting black enamel 21:20 Applying first layer of gold leaf 22:35 Applying second layer of gold leaf 23:12 Clear coat on gold layer 23:23 Putting the glass into the lid 23:52 Final product