Hi Gang, I am becoming totally fascinated with resin lately. Especially combining it with burls. It's adding a lot more time to making a box but,......who cares. I am still in the experimental stages. That "experimental river box" I put on here some weeks ago, sold within a fortnight. So I decided to make another 3 but not really rivers. I make the lid inserts before I start on the main box. My large boxes are all the same size 315mm x 185mm. The mold I made for the lid inserts naturally accommodates for my box size. I pretty well use panel frame lids now on all my large boxes.
All the timber apart from the Burl (Coolabah and RedGum) is Australian Red Cedar, a mate at bowls gave me a heap of it.
The box with the lighter blue resin lid, my wife claimed that before I even started it. She even chose the burl pieces to use.
The smaller box is very popular also, so I sliced up a heap of my old dribs and drabs just to get rid of some timber and made 22 of these boxes. I am now slowly working my way through making the lids for them.
Paul