Thread: Boxes galore

Nice work, the Silky Oak is particularly appealing.

I'm actually over silky oak, yes it is appealing but I prefer other woods now. Notice I haven't made or finished a red cedar one yet except for the larger dovetailed one which is panelling from an old QR carriage. Same reason, bored with it!
The red one is Honduran Mahogany. I have a small amount of the real dark Cuban to make something in next batch of stuff.

Becomng bored with silky oak is a problem I wouldn't mind having .

What are the timbers shown in photos 11 and 12 please.

All QLD rainforest species. The one on left is Deep Yellowwood(Rhodosphaera Rhodanthema) with ends of Scrub Ironbark(Bridelia Exaltata, nothing like the ironbark we all know). I would love some more of it as it was absolutely lovely to work. I have a bit more D Yellowwood but not much. It is around but only when someone wants to sell it I suppose? I got my log when DPI were still managing the pine plantations and would tender out miscellaneous logs that grew up naturally among the pines. I drove up to Jimna to pick it up 25 years ago. The splines in the carcase are satin sycamore I seem to remember, I gave this one to my ex-wife for Xmas last as she was with me when we loaded the log. It will darken to a more bronze as time goes by.
The next one is Yellowwood(Flindersia Xanthoxyla) with QLD Walnut ends. I have a good quantity of the Yellowwood. It is excellent if a tad hard. Can't remember the spline wood, it was for niece no.1 at Xmas.
These two boxes were not out of recycled wood as most of the others were. I got the Yellowwood from South Burnett region.
The second photo at top is something different. The carcase and ends are Black Apple(Pouteria Australis or could be a sister species?). It looks a little like pine but it is quite a heavy wood. It is extremely finely textured and polishes like a gloss piano finish as does the lid which I'm 99% sure is Grey Boxwood(Drypetes deplanchei). Both woods have excellent carving and working properties. The B Apple was from an old QR railway worker's saw stool legs which I bought at a garage sale. The G Boxwood was from a length of old VJ.
Thanks for asking as I enjoy discovering and sharing information about the different woods, especially our east coast rainforest species. By the way, I'm a member of International Wood Collectors Society hence my enthusiasm
By the way the one in middle row on its own is Jackwood (Cryptocaria glausecens). A real tool blunter.

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