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23rd February 2019, 05:09 PM #16GOLD MEMBER
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Finally, it's finished, not bad considering it was due last December.......
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C&c welcome.
Fumbler
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23rd February 2019, 05:31 PM #17
That’s one beautiful box Richard.
Your good lady should love it.
Cheers Peter
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23rd February 2019, 06:27 PM #18GOLD MEMBER
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Very nice indeed, Richard Very clean, crisp and sophisticated. Love your work!!!
Brian
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23rd February 2019, 06:33 PM #19GOLD MEMBER
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23rd February 2019, 06:34 PM #20GOLD MEMBER
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23rd February 2019, 09:16 PM #21
Gorgeous box - Well done!!! Love stark contrast in timbers so it doesn't get any better!
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23rd February 2019, 09:19 PM #22
That’s a very pretty little number.
I’m sure the late receiving date will soon be forgotten.
Cheers Matt
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24th February 2019, 09:39 AM #23
Well worth the extra wait time. It looks like you got all the answers to the questions you asked and meticulously put them into action on this piece.
Your progress in boxmaking has been very fast. A gift to be proud ofDallas
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24th February 2019, 09:49 AM #24GOLD MEMBER
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Quite stylish and modern, yet classically elegant at the same time: I quite like it. Its timeless. And I adore the clean.... there's a joy in seeing someone build a box with good timber and getting a great result. As a processor it irks me when people shrug off good timber as not figured enough for boxes or similar when I know dammed well it is.
The only suggestion I would make - and its not a criticism by any means - is that personally I'd have loved to have seen one of those traditional parquet flooring patterns on the top (like a compass rose or sunburst etc). That's just a personal thing... for me it would be the difference between I like it, and your wife can wait another year because I just paid you that much you couldn't say no.
I would suggest the tension issue in the NSA you mentioned when you split the boards is the result of kiln processes, and not being reconditioned correctly at the end of drying. It can be quite a brittle timber at times, but it gets put in the kilns and gets dried hard and fast to get the moisture away before it goes green instead of white and it takes a lot of skill to bring it back from that. The skill shortage in the industry is bad, and good kiln operators are very scarce indeed.
Well done.
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24th February 2019, 11:26 AM #25GOLD MEMBER
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Well, you reap what you sow, in preparation for getting the jewellery box, the wife handed me a tangled mess of 20 necklaces, and said can you sort them out please? I should've taken a photo. 2 hrs, 17 down, 3 to go.
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24th February 2019, 11:29 AM #26
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