2 new boxes and an interesting timber

**Evanism** · 30th June 2013, 03:32 AM

My photography skills are lame, but these are Fridays jobs.

A pill box for my wife, she has lots of pills. Timber is 4mm thick. The fingers are 1/8" and the whole box is just over 1 1/4" tall. Its all golden ratio.

Red wood is from a pallet a delivery came in upon, top is Grace Eucalyptus I cut down about 4 months back.... at least what I think was Grace Euc..... maybe not! The photos on the black doesn't accurately represent the true colour (it was in the sun) but the one with the tomato is for scale and colouration.

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This is the grace eucalypt (???), its really amazing. The tree was horribly diseased, under watered and generally abused which produced some amazing grain. The tree was chopped after a big wind literally split it in half down the middle.

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This is for letters and receipts, nothing special.... made with Bunnings Crappo Pine scraps.

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Box making is fun!!!!!!

**3 toed sloth** · 30th June 2013, 09:14 AM

I like the top on that pill box, really sets it off. Good on you for milling it and drying it out, I think it's very satisfying when you can use your own timber like that.

Regards,
Peter

**fineboxes** · 30th June 2013, 09:52 AM

Love it, great job

And you're right box making is FUN

Cheers

Steve

**wheelinround** · 30th June 2013, 09:56 AM

Nice grain on the first two well done.

**AlexS** · 30th June 2013, 10:32 AM

Both very nice boxes. I really like them with thin walls, they just look so much neater.
Never heard of Grace Eucalyptus, but it shows the value of experimenting with windfalls.

**artme** · 30th June 2013, 11:17 AM

Top stuphph Evan!!!

The insert in that lid looks like one of the grevillias.

Never heard of Grace Euc., but that grain is something else!!

**Evanism** · 30th June 2013, 08:14 PM

Both timbers are a complete mystery! Someone I know said this is what it was, it looks like a grevillia to me too.

**spokeshave** · 30th June 2013, 08:29 PM

Agree with all the comments above.

Great little boxes. Love the lid, very unusual and interesting grain.

Steven.

**Xanthorrhoeas** · 30th June 2013, 08:45 PM

The first, very beautiful box, is definitely timber of the Proteaceae family, which includes Grevillea robusta (southern silky oak), Banksia species, Orites (northern silky oak), etc. difficult to identify past that without sectioning and a microscope. I have no idea about the euc. (p.s. I am a botanist by training).
Regards
David

**AlexS** · 30th June 2013, 10:08 PM

It looks very similar to some coast banksia that I once had, but it probably looks similar to quite a few others as well.

**Ozziespur** · 1st July 2013, 12:52 PM

Is that a small box or a giant tomato ?

Beautiful work, really stunning. I aspire to creating something half as nice.

**TTIT** · 3rd July 2013, 08:35 PM

Very pretty little box

Originally Posted by Xanthorrhoeas

The first, very beautiful box, is definitely timber of the Proteaceae family, which includes Grevillea robusta (southern silky oak), Banksia species, Orites (northern silky oak), etc. difficult to identify past that without sectioning and a microscope. I have no idea about the euc. (p.s. I am a botanist by training).
Regards
David

Gotta agree with this - no eucalypt I know has a medulary ray like that but it looks very much like Silver Oak (grevillea parallela)

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