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Carved Indian Box

Boxes with Other Techniques

Boxes with Marquetry Lids I have made several simple boxes with lids marquetry with interesting themes. The main bodies vary as does the native wood.

Tool Box Pencil Box Cribbage Board Box Business Card Box

Love & Peace Carved Box Puzzle Box Feather Box Ring Tower Brief Case Recipe Boxes Click thumbnail to enlarge, Mouse over for description

Hot Air Balloon A simple hot air balloon made from

mahogany, wenge, poplar, blood wood. The

case and lid background is walnut. the

hinges are shop made from walnut.

Cowboys A western theme, a series of cowboys on horses. Saddles are walnut and mahogany, shirts are cruly maple, faces are peach and hats are pine. Background is birdseye maple. Case is 1/4” maple.

Happy Frog A mahogany box with happy little frog. The

frog sits on a wenge twig, legs are walnut,

body is pine, poplar and silky oak, with eyes

of mahogany.

Happier Frog The same frog image but mirror image, but his waiting is about to pay off. A dragon fly is inlaid into the marquetry. The body is black africa wood and the wings mother of pearl.

Rose This a simple mitred box with a paneled lid rebated on all four edges so it sit in the box. The panel is marquetry ( walnut, mahogany, cherry) on a quilted maple background, while the box is made from Cocobolo . Black Wood keys strengthen the joint.

Tea This is a simple mitred cherry box with a paneled lid rebated on all four edges so it sit in the box. The panel is marquetry pine) on a cherry background so that it looks like an inlay. The young lady offers tea to the young lad. This box is sized to hold fancy herbal teas.

Geese on a Moon Lit Night This is a mitred box with a paneled lid

surrounded with a rose wood edging. The

panel is marquetry on a mahogany

background that has been coloured with lye

to darken it like a dawn sky. The main case

is Bubinga and the Rose wood legs cap the

edges.

Music Box This is a mitred box with a paneled lid

surrounded with a rose wood edging. The

panel is marquetry on a mahogany

background that has been coloured with lye

to darken it like a dawn sky. The main case

is Bubinga and the Rose wood legs cap the

edges.

Tool Box For Christmas, I made a tool boxes for my sons. It has finger

jointed seams, a removable tray and several chambers in the

bottom section for storing small bits and pieces. The side

chamber provides the support for the tray.

The top is 1/8" resawn Wood laminated to 1/4 plywood then

rebated into the sides of the the top section

One is made from soft Maple with a Cherry plaque and the

other quarter sawn oak with a walnut plaque. The plaques were

carved with their initials. Solid brass hardware came from Lee

Valley. WOOD Maple, Cherry Tried & True Varnish Oil Oak Water based Urethane

Pencil Box One of the first simple boxes I made was a

pencil box. The corners are simple miter

joints with oak keys and the top sets into a

rebbat cut in the carcase. A little Walnut tab

acts as the handle/pull. An Oak strip

laminated with Walnut veneer divides the

two book matched Maple pieces for the top.

A smaller one has a tip up lid. WOOD Maple, Oak, Walnut Watco Oil, Antique wood wax

Cribbage Box A life long friend was retiring and planning to

hit the road in an RV for months on end, so I

designed and build this cribbage box as a

retirement present.

The center is the cribbage board made from

Ipea strips laminated with thin Ash dividers.

I printed the hole pattern and stuck them on

the strips as guides to drill by. The pegs

come from Lee Valley. I made two of them

one with Ash and one with Oak. WOOD Ipea, Ash Tung Oil (3 coats) Bees wax

Business Card Holder I generally carry business cards, so I

designed and built several. The holder is

also a great way to use up the tag ends

of boards that are cut off due to a knot

or wild grain. I have made many of

them for gifts.

This little box has been featured in an

article in the Canadian WoodWorks

magazine.

WOOD maple, african blackwood Lacquer

Love & Peace Carved Box I tried combining marquetry and carving

in a singe theme. The main case uses

low relief carving of linked hearts to

symbolize love. The marquetry of aspen,

maple and anigre. The marquetry is

backed by stable plywood and the inside

of the lid is walnut backed on plywood.

The two are separated by space a

picture framed by moulded walnut thus

giving it a thicker appearance. WOOD walnut Lacquer

Carved Indian Box This box is a basic bandsaw box (I was

able to use my scrollsaw so there is no

entrance cut). The shape is an arrow

head and the horse head is carved with

slight bit of stain on the mane and the

feather. The image comes from an ink drawing I

bought off of an old Indian. WOOD Clear Cedar Lacquer

Puzzle Box This is a rather challenging puzzle. Twenty four, 1/2" square pieces are dado'ed in various ways so they fit together around a simple box. Getting it apart is the trick. Getting it back together is very difficult without the instructions. WOOD: Mahogany, Maple, Walnut Watco, Stain Oil

Ring Tower I designed this box three times on paper and twice as prototype and did not

like any of them. At the last minute I changed the woods I planned to use

and this is the results. The idea is to put a ring up on a ‘pedestal’. The Idea came from the image of

the young man on his knees holding up the store type box with the ring in. WOOD Spalded Maple & Ipea, Deft oil.

Tiger Maple Recipe Box This box keeps recipes for good food. It was made from a piece of

Tiger Maple and has my first attempt at hand cut dovetails for the

joints. The top is four pieces of Lacewood checker boarded together and

dadoed into the sides. Four figures adorn the top;

a cookie, Maple and Black Africa wood a piece of pie, Redheart and Butternut

a piece of cake, Walnut and Red Cedar

a bowl of pudding, Vegetable Ivory and Zebra wood.

WOOD: Tiger Maple, Australian Lacewood, Maple, Black Africa wood,

Redheart, Butternut, Walnut, Red Cedar, Vegetable Ivory (Tagua

Nut), Zebra wood

Hand rubbed Shellac (8 coats) Carnauba wax (2 coats)

Wooden Briefcase I wanted a challenge for the SAW 2011

Exhibition so I designed this briefcase. The

hot rod was solid modeled then two views

were prepared and used as the template.

The case is finger jointed. The marquetry is combined with some

thicker inlays for the headlights and the

exhaust pipes to give them a more thicker

look. I call it “Coming & Going” and to limit

damage from use I only use it fro picking

up $1m checks. WOOD Walnut, msc. Veneers

Feather Box This is a rather interesting effect. A piece of

walnut is book matched, then sawn and

sanded in the shape of a feather. It forms

the top of a bandsaw box. Two twin

magnets holds the lid to body. WOOD: Alder, Walnut Watco Oil, Whiping Urethane

Poplar Recipe Box This is a Recipe box with some Intarsia on the top. This was

designed to hold a set of cards that came with a book or something.

The top is dadoed into the sides. This was my first attempt at finger

joints and Intarsia. The fingers were done with a jig that slides in the

T rail on the router table.

The card separators have titles on them This was done by printing a

mirror image of the words on a laser printer. They are then ironed

on with a low heat iron and sprayed with lacquer to seal them.

Four figures adorn the top;

a lemon, Yellowheart an apple, Redheart and Walnut

a cluster of grapes, Purpleheart and Walnut

a mushroom, Maple, Ash, and end grain Oak.

WOOD Poplar, Yellowheart, Maple, Black Walnut, Redheart, Purpleheart,

Ash, Oak, VBaltic Birch. Lacquer (spray can)

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