Thread: Sculpted Box

Umm... wow!!

i think i'll just go pack up now... might concentrate on lures and building my boat. I'll leave boxes to the experts!!

That is absolutely beautiful, and a ton of work put into it also. Super job.

Paul

That's a beauty!

Beautiful work David. I hope to get there one day.

you put my poor efforts to shame...

That's one of the nicest boxes I've seen in a long time. Is it possible that the lid timber is Australian Red Cedar.

Wow! That's so beautiful - so much work but so worthwhile. Thanks for sharing!

Yeah, that’s pretty good isn’t it.👍

Beautiful box, nice to see the freestyle shape it flows very well. I think there is a good chance the top timber is white cedar very typical grain pattern.
Regards Rod.

Originally Posted by Rod Gilbert

Beautiful box, nice to see the freestyle shape it flows very well. I think there is a good chance the top timber is white cedar very typical grain pattern.
Regards Rod.

Agree about the white cedar - I stand corrected.

David, was your mitre saw broken that day, had to change tack perhaps? Hahaha, that's a beaut, very creative indeed.

Thank you Alex. Not cedar, just meranti. I know that doesn’t mean much meranti coming in so many kinds. But every now and then you find a nicely figured piece which is almost always warped and twisted and has apropensity to tear out as well. Therefor a box lid shaped and formed in submission to the twisting and warping is the answer.

I am a carver rather than box-maker and so I construct the box with the simplest possible construction into an inelegant blocky thing that looks like a reject brick that any modification at all can only improve. Then with carving tools or maybe just a sharp chisel, certainly a rasp and 80 grit paper I shape the thick-walled holly block according to whim.

Apart from an eye for fair curves, the stubborn tenacity to work from 80 grit to 1200 and beyond and a tested finishing technique, it is a simple project compared to most hand-crafted boxes that comprise expertly fitted joinery.

Oops, I just stated that the top was meranti, but I was thinking of another sculpted box I had made with all meranti. I didn’t know the timber I used for the top of this one, only knew it wasn’t red cedar, white cedar sounds right. These sculpted form boxes are all I am capable of until I learn and use proper techniques with well prepared timber.

Originally Posted by David Stanley

Oops, I just stated that the top was meranti, but I was thinking of another sculpted box I had made with all meranti. I didn’t know the timber I used for the top of this one, only knew it wasn’t red cedar, white cedar sounds right. These sculpted form boxes are all I am capable of until I learn and use proper techniques with well prepared timber.

Funny, many of us who are well versed in the 'proper' techniques would love to be able to make a nice sculpted box like that.