Blackwood and Huon Pine boxes.

**TasSculptor** · 2nd March 2016, 07:01 PM

A couple of this weeks boxes in progress. Blackwood and Huon Pine. Just have to cut the ends off and fit the drawers now.

**Rod Gilbert** · 2nd March 2016, 07:34 PM

Hi Jason,
A beautiful pair of boxes coming on there looking forward to having a go at one of these maybe with some of you're timber that I just received from you. (I should get a few different boxes from it if I'm careful.)
Regards Rod.

**artme** · 2nd March 2016, 09:36 PM

Well! They have certainly made my day!! Gorgeous!!

brava

**tomartomau** · 2nd March 2016, 10:05 PM

Wow, those boxes are awesome..

Well done.

**shedbound** · 2nd March 2016, 11:34 PM

Nice contrasting timbers and great workmanship, well done

**MAPLEMAN** · 3rd March 2016, 09:45 AM

Lovely stuff...MM

**double.d** · 3rd March 2016, 04:50 PM

Beautiful work

those timbers are a perfect match.

**LGS** · 3rd March 2016, 08:23 PM

beautiful work. Love the Fiddleback!

Regards,

Rob

**seriph1** · 3rd March 2016, 09:06 PM

Breathtaking. You've really succeeded in celebrating the grain! What finish have you applied and how?

**TasSculptor** · 4th March 2016, 09:52 AM

Originally Posted by seriph1

Breathtaking. You've really succeeded in celebrating the grain! What finish have you applied and how?

Thanks. The finish is tru-oil which is quite easy to apply (by hand). It seems to work best on hard woods.
Regards. Jason.

**seriph1** · 4th March 2016, 10:08 AM

Never heard of it but will pick some up. Thanks very much

**TasSculptor** · 5th March 2016, 02:35 PM

Finished them this morning.

**seriph1** · 5th March 2016, 05:08 PM

Brilliant. I finished one today too - switching to PC so I can send a pic or two

**seriph1** · 5th March 2016, 05:13 PM

I built the box to house a book called ABC3D. You can see it on YouTube.

ABC3D - YouTube

It'll make sense when you see what I made for it.

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**seriph1** · 5th March 2016, 06:33 PM

So this has been made for a baby girl - Annabella is only 9 months old, but as we all know too well, she will need to learn her "ABCs" soon enough. Once she knows them, she should have a great foundation for her lifelong learning. This lovely little book should help make it fun.

To explain, 6 weeks ago her dad hosted/ran a conference I attended. I got a huge amount of information and insight from it so I decided to acknowledge his contribution to my life by making this humble offering to him and his daughter.

Phase two of the conference is tomorrow so I will give it to him at the end - hope he likes it. Either way it is a gift from the heart, using what skills I have.

I found it quite challenging as I haven't carved before and because there are few right angles (all angles referenced the "A" inspired by the book and her name) - the project took quite a few hours, including design, hunting down the leather, making, refining and finishing.

BTW the leather used in the project came from a bag, bought at St. Vinnies for $8.

The strap, main body and magnetic catch were used.

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