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  1. 7th December 2006, 11:09 PM #1
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    Hello, I am a brand new member to this forum. I am pleased to be here and have been greatly impressed with all your work. So many realy good woodworkers here. I have only been practicing making saw dust for 20 months now and have pretty much restricted myself to box making. I started with simple boxes and have been gradually making more difficult ones. I work with a lot of nice exotic woods and have a ready supply near where I work. Makes a nice lunch break. I am going to take a stab at posting a picture of a recent box. It is made from kingwood with maple splines and has a ribbon sapele bottom. I will put candy in it and give it to a friend for Christmas.

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    A Nice bit of Eye Candy!

    Welcome to the best Forum, internationally, of Box Makers.
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    Welcome, I am new here myself. That is a beautiful box! I use kingwood for pens but haven't ever seen boards nice enough to make a box. Beautiful!

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    A Very good looking box. One of those warm and fuzzy looking ones that are just very pleasant to look at, touch and open.

    And from a relatively new member.....Welcome. Before you know it, they'll have us licensing this forum in the States if we keep this up

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    First, welcome Cisco! Good to have another Sepo join us. Like the work of your compatriots, this is a lovely piece.

    It's interesting to see how the choice of timber determines the appearance of a box. Aussies are often envied for the exotic range of timber species available to them; but I reckon you Yanks have an equally good range of wood that is not easily found here, if at all.

    Good work, Mate!

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    Welcome - Beautiful box!!

    any chance of seeing a picture with the lid on?

    thanks!

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    And the candy???

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    Welcome Cisco...
    A very impressive box.
    As Wendy asked......can you post a pic with the lid in place?...
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    Good Morning Kid and welcome

    That is a beautiful box. I love the maple splines...they sure look white. I would love to see a closeup of the lid also. I noticed you cut it down on the sides and from what I can see looks really great.

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    Thank you for the kind words regarding this box. I wish I were a better wood worker. But I get so much satisfaction out of it. In response to your requests to see a picture with the lid on, here it is. I can only say that putting a lid on it does not make it any easier on the eyes. Sorry. I am rather fortunate, however, to have an excellent supply of almost any exotic hardwood I can think of. I just picked up four more kingwood boards and a nice piece of rather excellent ebony. I went in looking for canarywood because I'm addicted to building things with it, most notably CD towers, and I always walk out of there with more than I went in for. My wife says I'm a wood whore. I wouldn't know about such things.
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    That is a gorgeous box. I wouldn't get down on yourself at all, you have displayed some fine craftsmanship in that box and wow, that is some beautiful wood. Thanks for the additional pics!

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    That grain is something isnt it!

    Nice work mate... and welcome to the forum.
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    That is very pretty. A pleasure to look at. I am going to have to look into that wood myself. The Maple keys are a good contrast too.
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    Eye Candy!! Yum!!
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