I’ve had a piece of Oak burr that I’d wanted to do something different with for a while, every time I picked it up nothing suggested itself, then I decided it would make a nice lid for a small box. As our Silver Wedding anniversary was coming up I made it into a gift for my much better half 😉 the burr had quite a few gaps in the grain so these were filled with powered brass mixed with resin. The sides are made from yew with walnut pegged joints.
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Far too many years ago we met Peter Lloyd at a woodworking show and bought his book (link), one of the projects in it has appealed to me for some time but I never had the opportunity to attempt it. Fast forward to a few weeks ago and I was thinking of making a gift for a friend and the writing slope from the book sprang to mind, the design changed a bit from the one in the book but that’s just how it goes sometimes. The majority of the…
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Another memory box, this time out of Ash and Cherry, with a touch of Walnut (okay, Ash sides, Cherry lid, and Walnut wedges). *Title stolen from Red Dwarf 😉
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I was stood in the workshop about to plane some wood and thought “I wonder if I could turn a lidded box”, so I did 😉 The main bowl and lid is turned from Iroko and the finial is Oak….
Read MoreOr, Oh No I turned an Ent! This morning I decided to start sorting out the new workshop, it’s not the most exciting of jobs but needed doing. After a while of moving boxes of tools, stacking wood….. I put the lathe together and found a suitable place for it. Then I wondered if it still worked as it had been a while since it turned anything. Satisfied that it started I then wondered if the chisels were sharp 😉 This is a piece of Sapele otherwise known as Entandrophragma…
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