Carved IndianBoxBoxes with Other TechniquesBoxes with Marquetry LidsI have made several simple boxes with lids marquetry with interesting themes. The main bodies vary as does the native wood.Tool BoxPencil BoxCribbage Board BoxBusiness Card BoxLove & Peace Carved BoxPuzzle BoxFeather BoxRing TowerBrief CaseRecipe BoxesClick thumbnail to enlarge, Mouse over for description
Hot Air BalloonA simple hot air balloon made frommahogany, wenge, poplar, blood wood. Thecase and lid background is walnut. thehinges are shop made from walnut.
CowboysA 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 FrogA mahogany box with happy little frog. Thefrog sits on a wenge twig, legs are walnut,body is pine, poplar and silky oak, with eyesof mahogany.
Happier FrogThe 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.
RoseThis 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.
TeaThis 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 NightThis is a mitred box with a paneled lidsurrounded with a rose wood edging. Thepanel is marquetry on a mahoganybackground that has been coloured with lyeto darken it like a dawn sky. The main caseis Bubinga and the Rose wood legs cap theedges.
Music BoxThis is a mitred box with a paneled lidsurrounded with a rose wood edging. Thepanel is marquetry on a mahoganybackground that has been coloured with lyeto darken it like a dawn sky. The main caseis Bubinga and the Rose wood legs cap theedges.
Tool BoxFor Christmas, I made a tool boxes for my sons. It has fingerjointed seams, a removable tray and several chambers in thebottom section for storing small bits and pieces. The sidechamber provides the support for the tray.The top is 1/8" resawn Wood laminated to 1/4 plywood thenrebated into the sides of the the top sectionOne is made from soft Maple with a Cherry plaque and theother quarter sawn oak with a walnut plaque. The plaques werecarved with their initials. Solid brass hardware came from LeeValley.WOODMaple, CherryTried & True Varnish OilOakWater based Urethane
Pencil BoxOne of the first simple boxes I made was apencil box. The corners are simple miterjoints with oak keys and the top sets into arebbat cut in the carcase. A little Walnut tabacts as the handle/pull. An Oak striplaminated with Walnut veneer divides thetwo book matched Maple pieces for the top.A smaller one has a tip up lid.WOODMaple, Oak, WalnutWatco Oil, Antique wood wax
Cribbage BoxA life long friend was retiring and planning tohit the road in an RV for months on end, so Idesigned and build this cribbage box as aretirement present.The center is the cribbage board made fromIpea strips laminated with thin Ash dividers.I printed the hole pattern and stuck them onthe strips as guides to drill by. The pegscome from Lee Valley. I made two of themone with Ash and one with Oak.WOODIpea, AshTung Oil (3 coats) Bees wax
Business Card HolderI generally carry business cards, so Idesigned and built several. The holder isalso a great way to use up the tag endsof boards that are cut off due to a knotor wild grain. I have made many ofthem for gifts.This little box has been featured in anarticle in the Canadian WoodWorksmagazine.WOODmaple, african blackwoodLacquer
Love & Peace Carved BoxI tried combining marquetry and carvingin a singe theme. The main case useslow relief carving of linked hearts tosymbolize love. The marquetry of aspen,maple and anigre. The marquetry isbacked by stable plywood and the insideof the lid is walnut backed on plywood.The two are separated by space apicture framed by moulded walnut thusgiving it a thicker appearance. WOODwalnutLacquer
Carved Indian BoxThis box is a basic bandsaw box (I wasable to use my scrollsaw so there is noentrance cut). The shape is an arrowhead and the horse head is carved withslight bit of stain on the mane and thefeather. The image comes from an ink drawing Ibought off of an old Indian.WOODClear CedarLacquer
Puzzle BoxThis 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, WalnutWatco, Stain Oil
Ring TowerI designed this box three times on paper and twice as prototype and did notlike any of them. At the last minute I changed the woods I planned to useand this is the results. The idea is to put a ring up on a ‘pedestal’. The Idea came from the image ofthe young man on his knees holding up the store type box with the ring in. WOODSpalded Maple & Ipea, Deft oil.
Tiger Maple Recipe BoxThis box keeps recipes for good food. It was made from a piece ofTiger Maple and has my first attempt at hand cut dovetails for thejoints.The top is four pieces of Lacewood checker boarded together anddadoed into the sides. Four figures adorn the top; a cookie, Maple and Black Africa wooda piece of pie, Redheart and Butternuta piece of cake, Walnut and Red Cedara bowl of pudding, Vegetable Ivory and Zebra wood.WOOD:Tiger Maple, Australian Lacewood, Maple, Black Africa wood,Redheart, Butternut, Walnut, Red Cedar, Vegetable Ivory (TaguaNut), Zebra wood Hand rubbed Shellac (8 coats) Carnauba wax (2 coats)
Wooden BriefcaseI wanted a challenge for the SAW 2011Exhibition so I designed this briefcase. Thehot rod was solid modeled then two viewswere prepared and used as the template.The case is finger jointed.The marquetry is combined with somethicker inlays for the headlights and theexhaust pipes to give them a more thickerlook.I call it “Coming & Going” and to limitdamage from use I only use it fro pickingup $1m checks. WOODWalnut, msc. Veneers
Feather BoxThis is a rather interesting effect. A piece ofwalnut is book matched, then sawn andsanded in the shape of a feather. It formsthe top of a bandsaw box. Two twinmagnets holds the lid to body.WOOD:Alder, WalnutWatco Oil, Whiping Urethane
Poplar Recipe BoxThis is a Recipe box with some Intarsia on the top. This wasdesigned 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 fingerjoints and Intarsia. The fingers were done with a jig that slides in theT rail on the router table.The card separators have titles on them This was done by printing amirror image of the words on a laser printer. They are then ironedon with a low heat iron and sprayed with lacquer to seal them.Four figures adorn the top; a lemon, Yellowheartan apple, Redheart and Walnuta cluster of grapes, Purpleheart and Walnuta mushroom, Maple, Ash, and end grain Oak.WOODPoplar, Yellowheart, Maple, Black Walnut, Redheart, Purpleheart,Ash, Oak, VBaltic Birch.Lacquer (spray can)