Memory box time, this one was made as a wedding gift for my niece, and was made from three different woods – Walnut for the two side pieces, Ash for the front and back pieces, then Oak for the lid. For the hinges I used some more of the Walnut, no metal fixing were used on the actual box, though screws were used to fix the name plate inside the lid.
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Far too many years ago I bought a piece of wood, it wasn’t a large piece of wood but it had very nice grain, it was labelled Tiger Striped Oak not one I’d heard of but I thought would make a nice box lid. Fast forward 15-20 years and I start to plane the wood only to discover a rather unfortunate split, wood being rather expensive these days and still liking the grain I attacked it with an arbotech blade I’d borrowed from my dad. The blade is one of…
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I had some pieces of cherry wood that needed to be used for something, so I had a play 😉
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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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