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