Thread: Latest Box

Another nice one. Love camphor!

Very nice stuff Gaz, keep it up!

Thanks for bringing back fond memories of my childhood growing up on the farm.

GRS
Very nice. I like the Sunrays design it sort of adds another dimension to it.

I also like Camphor and I'm about to start building a Entrance Cabinet from Camphor

G'day all

the box is all done, finished with bleached shellac and enjo wood balm which gives a very silky result.
Here also is close ups of the carved front piece

cheers Gary

Beautiful work Gary, as always!

good job.

I like this one better then your last one you posted.. love the desing on the front. how many more sides do you have? your gonna have to start casting some new ends one day.

Junkboy,

Fortunatley I have hit the mother lode! A Farmer in the wheatbelt here in WA
has taken to collecting these and now there is plenty of work to be done. He is keeping one step ahead of the scrap metal dealers.

Gazaly, thanks mate,might need you round to clean up the shed but

Thanks for all the coments
Cheers Gary

Originally Posted by GRS

....Gazaly, thanks mate,might need you round to clean up the shed but.....

Tell 'im 'es dreamin

Seriously though, can you explain a bit of the history behind these boxes? It's not something I've knowingly seen before!

Cheers mate.

Gaz,

I first saw a box made from the old ends about 10 yrs ago at a shop my uncle took me to in Subiaco which sold works by hobby woodworkers and artists, I don't know if it still operates. I had a set of ends at home which came off our farm at the time and I had them bolted to the wall under the patio as plaques, just as they were, a rusty colour. Anyway I thought then I would make a box out of them one day, which I did and to make them a bit more interesting I decided to put the logo on the front. I then showed a couple of guys at work ( mostley country people being a grain terminal ) who had access to farmers and some of them got hold of the ends. As there are so many different make I just put the different logos and things on them.

The ends themselves are very ornate and the manufacturers took to casting them with writing on probabley as a form of advertising. I researched some makes on the net and they have been around from the late 1800's to about the 1950's.
I have posted this pic before, this a seed drill intact that the ends come of, I don't remember what make though.

Hope this answers your question mate,

Cheers Gary

Great info Gary, thanks mate