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After making some boxes for my wife and daughter, I decided to make one in the design I wanted. This is the result.
I used Wenge, Blood wood, Tigre Caspi and good old Spalted Maple.
The compartments are lined with Black Leather. The finish is my usual, 3 coats of natural Watco, with the 2nd applied with 320 Wet-Dry paper and the last with 600 Wet-Dry. The final top coat is 2 coats of Liberon Black Bison "Clear" applied with 0000 Liberon Steel Wool.
Making this box almost never saw the light of day. For some stupid reason I decided to make the individual layers as separate "beveled and mitered frames", sort of like cutting crown molding on the table saw and dealing with small pieces to boot.
Needless to say, a lot of expensive wood ended up in the scrap pile, got enough for handles to outlast me.
Here's the photos, let me know if my sweat and cussing were worth it.
Bruce
BTW, the design is mine this time, although I'm sure that the basis for it came from stuff I saw.
I used Wenge, Blood wood, Tigre Caspi and good old Spalted Maple.
The compartments are lined with Black Leather. The finish is my usual, 3 coats of natural Watco, with the 2nd applied with 320 Wet-Dry paper and the last with 600 Wet-Dry. The final top coat is 2 coats of Liberon Black Bison "Clear" applied with 0000 Liberon Steel Wool.
Making this box almost never saw the light of day. For some stupid reason I decided to make the individual layers as separate "beveled and mitered frames", sort of like cutting crown molding on the table saw and dealing with small pieces to boot.
Needless to say, a lot of expensive wood ended up in the scrap pile, got enough for handles to outlast me.
Here's the photos, let me know if my sweat and cussing were worth it.
BTW, the design is mine this time, although I'm sure that the basis for it came from stuff I saw.
Loring in Katy, TX USA
Black wallnut
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