I’ve received feedback on my YouTube video French Box Easel – Full Guided Tour with people asking for more information about my personal customisations. In response I have made another video about the French Box focusing on the extra attachable cross member I showed which allows small boards and canvasses to be held at the very top of the easel.
The gallery below has all the still photos from the video plus measurements in imperial and metric so that anyone interested in building their own can use my example as a guide.
The dimensions are mostly arbitrary as I used scrap wood I had available and made it up as I went along. However the overall size of this one is small enough to store inside the box itself and large enough to securely hold any small painting support. One improvement I would suggest is to glue the first pair of spacer washers in place which I haven’t done yet – saves fiddling about with them.
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