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    Default Chopsticks Box & Chopsticks

    My latest box, a chopstick box and hand-shaped chopsticks. The box is made from silver ash and Tasmanian blackwood, the chopsticks from silver ash. I only had a small piece of this beautiful blackwood, and managed to split it to make the lid and bottom panels.
    The finish is Livos Kunos oil on the box, and U-Beaut white shellac on the chopsticks.
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    Nice clean design and very well executed. I also like the contrast of the Blackwood and silver ash.

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    Love a good chopstick.

    This box is a nice way to present them

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    Quote Originally Posted by groeneaj View Post
    Nice clean design and very well executed. I also like the contrast of the Blackwood and silver ash.


    The contrast between the timbers is stunning
    regards from Alberta, Canada

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    fair to middlin Alex, fair to middlin. Just joking, they look superb Alex, well done as always.

    I've got a good size length of Silver Ash. I had two long lengths and used one on a recent guitar. I also picked up some lovely Tassie Blackwood with amazing colouring/grain in it. But its a bit curvy. It got it from Mal at Boutique Timbers the other day when I called in to buy some more Hornbeam. He had just bought a truckload of that stuff along with Tassie Blackheart Sassafras. These couple of lengths of Blackwood were rejects due to the curve.

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    Thanks all, and also thanks for the heads up, Paul. I must ring Greg & see if he has any of that blackwood.
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    Hey there Alex, Mal has a heap of it. He bought a truckload of Blackheart Sassafras and Tassie Blackwood the day before I called in. That was about 3 weeks ago.

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    At your best again Alex. Nice work.

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    Lovely work, and yes, you cant have too many chopsticks, my wife says I have a fetish and need to let some go, nope, gotta keep trying til I find the find the prefect set.

    Not doubting your knowledge, but that black wood looks awfully a lot like rosewood, are you sure you grabbed he right piece? The piece in the middle similar size to your lid is Honduran Rosewood. But strikingly similar, unless my supplier has been pulling leg and is actually Blackwood.
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    Thanks Fumbler.
    It's definitely blackwood, I think there's slightly more reddish tinge in rosewood.
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    Really well done. You can get lost in that blackwood.
    When all is said and done, there is usually a whole lot more said than done.

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    Hi. Alex, pleased to see your post, you know I have ceased to use machinery and your box certainly looks lovely, did you construct the mitred corners by hand?
    I must have a go at a design like yours next summer.
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    Thanks John. Yes, hand cut dovetails.
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    Absolutely beautiful, great selection of contrasting timbers, amazing lid. Well done Alex. Quite masterful!
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