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Well, the last 6 weekday evenings and the intervening Saturday were busy.
Managed to produce the following - hope you like (at least some of them):
English Oak box, recycled from an old gate post, with Purpleheart top, bottom and removable dividers. The splines are also Purpleheart.
Beech ring box using beech recovered from old school desks. The top and inside are made form a lovely piece of pipped London plane (lacewood).
Reinforcing splines are English Sycamore.
Lovely figured Sapele sides with Sycamore legs. I wish I had more of this Sapele!! The removable dividers and upper tray are also Sycamore to tie in with the legs and hold it all together. This is my favourite of all of these boxes.
The last of the Bubinga I used to make my recent planes was used to make this box. My wife wanted me to experiment with using the same species for the legs, top and sides.
The removable dividers are Sycamore to add a little interest and contrast when opened.
I made 4 of these small Mahogany boxes with dovetailed sliding lids. Two of them have Zebrano let into the lids to add a bit of interest. Insides were machined using the Rat with 1/2" spiral cutter (milling cutter - circa £8 )
Beech box made with wood from a recycled school table. I quite like the fine grain and speckles in Beech, but felt this one needed several splines to avoid it looking too boring. I am quite pleased with the shape of the splines with the curved path from top to bottom. The top is spalted Oak and the reinforcing splines are American Walnut.
Purpleheart sides really set this box off along with the sharp contrast from the Sycamore legs. Removable internal dividers are Sycamore.
This one used a fantastic (but small) picece of tiger striped Ash that I managed to pick up at Good Timber a couple of weeks back. The legs and top are made from Paduak, a beautiful wood that os HORRIBLE to work with. Everything is still orange!! :shock:
More of the English Oak that was recycled from an old gate post. This piece is so beautifully figured and there are so many colours in it that I decided not to reinforce with external splines, but to fit a loose tenon in the mitre (slots cut on Rat).
The top is a piece of spalted Oak, mitred to sit above the box. This one is my wife's favourite of them all
Once again, the recycled English oak was used with more of the spalted oak for the top which forms a raised panel on the lid. The mitres are reinforced with Paduak splines and the removable dividers are of the same oak as the sides.
A simple American Cherry box that has far more colours in it than can be conveyed in these simple photos. I reinforced the mitres with more Cherry to avoid drawing attention to them and away from the subtle colour variatios in the wood. The removable dividers are Cherry and the top is the final piece of the Spalted Oak I got from Bobscarle.
Well, the last 6 weekday evenings and the intervening Saturday were busy.
Managed to produce the following - hope you like (at least some of them):
English Oak box, recycled from an old gate post, with Purpleheart top, bottom and removable dividers. The splines are also Purpleheart.
Beech ring box using beech recovered from old school desks. The top and inside are made form a lovely piece of pipped London plane (lacewood).
Reinforcing splines are English Sycamore.
Lovely figured Sapele sides with Sycamore legs. I wish I had more of this Sapele!! The removable dividers and upper tray are also Sycamore to tie in with the legs and hold it all together. This is my favourite of all of these boxes.
The last of the Bubinga I used to make my recent planes was used to make this box. My wife wanted me to experiment with using the same species for the legs, top and sides.
The removable dividers are Sycamore to add a little interest and contrast when opened.
I made 4 of these small Mahogany boxes with dovetailed sliding lids. Two of them have Zebrano let into the lids to add a bit of interest. Insides were machined using the Rat with 1/2" spiral cutter (milling cutter - circa £8 )
Beech box made with wood from a recycled school table. I quite like the fine grain and speckles in Beech, but felt this one needed several splines to avoid it looking too boring. I am quite pleased with the shape of the splines with the curved path from top to bottom. The top is spalted Oak and the reinforcing splines are American Walnut.
Purpleheart sides really set this box off along with the sharp contrast from the Sycamore legs. Removable internal dividers are Sycamore.
This one used a fantastic (but small) picece of tiger striped Ash that I managed to pick up at Good Timber a couple of weeks back. The legs and top are made from Paduak, a beautiful wood that os HORRIBLE to work with. Everything is still orange!! :shock:
More of the English Oak that was recycled from an old gate post. This piece is so beautifully figured and there are so many colours in it that I decided not to reinforce with external splines, but to fit a loose tenon in the mitre (slots cut on Rat).
The top is a piece of spalted Oak, mitred to sit above the box. This one is my wife's favourite of them all
Once again, the recycled English oak was used with more of the spalted oak for the top which forms a raised panel on the lid. The mitres are reinforced with Paduak splines and the removable dividers are of the same oak as the sides.
A simple American Cherry box that has far more colours in it than can be conveyed in these simple photos. I reinforced the mitres with more Cherry to avoid drawing attention to them and away from the subtle colour variatios in the wood. The removable dividers are Cherry and the top is the final piece of the Spalted Oak I got from Bobscarle.
