Boxes

[elderly]

Four boxes. Box 1 maple the insert is blackwood and decorated with the Sorby miniature spiral and texturing tool. Boxes 2&3 are blackwood and box 4 is maple.
Cheers Frank

[turnerted]

Beautiful boxes there . The texturing really adds to it.
Ted

[Rod Gilbert]

Hi elderly,
Very nice selection of boxes I like the texturing very much what have you used to highlight the texture. The blackwood pair and the maple one are also nicely proportioned.
Regards Rod.

[Christos]

....I like the texturing very much what have you used to highlight the texture. .....

I also would like to know what you did to highlight the top.

[dai sensei]

Well done :2tsup: I really like your box 3, simple but elegant :cool:. Is the finial ebony or just ebonised?

[elderly]

Thanks for your comments guys. To highlight the texture I applied colour with a permanent marker while the lathe was running. Once it was dry I rubbed liming wax into the texture and then polished the surplus off leaving the wax in the indentations. I hope this makes sense. This technique was demonstrated at Turn fest by Nick Agar.
The finial on the third box is not ebony it is just dyed.
Cheers Frank.

[Mobyturns]

Frank they look great, looks like you got great value from Turnfest.

It was good to meet you there & my apology for my senior moment at the ice cream machine :-

[Bluegum]

Hi elderly, they look amazing there mate. Love your work.:2tsup: