Oak knot box, Finished!

[skipdiver]

Looks like Alfred Hitchcock to me.

 

[Racers]

Thanks for the kind words chaps it means a lot.

Pete

 

[Racers]

Here it is chaps.

I made the sliding tray using the router table for the groves mitre shooting board for the corners and chisels for the divider dados.

Oak knot box by Racers, on Flickr

Oak knot box open by Racers, on Flickr

Pete

 

[skipdiver]

Really exceptional. Love it.

 

[Racers]

Thanks Steve.

Pete

 

[custard]

Blimey, that's fantastic!

And topical too as you've finished it just in time for Halloween...it reminds me of a cut out pumpkin!

Seriously Pete, you've done an amazing job there, it's the sort of thing that you expect to see at the Cheltenham Show with a £700 price ticket and a red dot sticker showing it's already been sold!

=D>

 

[John15]

Very attractive Pete. Congratulations.

John

 

[Racers]

Thank you Custard, it was easy starting with a fantastic piece of wood, thank you for sending it to me.

Thanks John

My photo of it on Flickr has made it into Explore and had over 1100 views!

Pete

 

[Brian18741]

Stunning work!

 

[xy mosian]

That really is very nice Pete! Am I right in thinking you got a good deal of pleasure making it?

xy

 

[n0legs]

Wow Pete, seriously wow! =D>
That's stunning =D>

 

[Racers]

That really is very nice Pete! Am I right in thinking you got a good deal of pleasure making it?

xy

Yes it was fun to make it, seemed to take longer than I anticipated but I did have to make a couple of jigs up for the feathers.


Thank you N0legs

Pete

 

[bugbear]

With all the internal voids, did you have to take special precautions against internal spelching?

BugBear

 

[Racers]

No, I just picked out all the spelching with knives, dental picks etc, it took a couple of hours to do.

Pete

 

[Paul200]

Just had to look up 'spelching' :? :roll:

Beautiful work Pete. After messing about making nothing in particular for years I discovered the joys of small box making about 5 years ago - but I've not yet attempted a 'warts and all' style box. A lovely thing - and inspirational too

Paul

 

[Racers]

Well I am not keen on the tray so started to prepare some brown oak for a new one, and veneered some thin ply with ripple sycamore veneer.

Brown oak shavings by Racers, on Flickr

Pete

 

[wallace]

Really enjoyed all of that, what a lovely piece of wood. Not too keen on being able to see the drawer through the void. I've always wanted to try something like that but fill the hole with a coloured resin.