Engagement Boxes 1
Decorative Boxes 2
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Celtic Moments
At 26 x 18 x 21" this is the largest box I've
I cut the trunk up and dried the wood
out for 2 months and planed it to prepare the wood for the construction of
this box. The butterfly wings are Turtleback Poplar with Ebony
spots. I shaded the wings by charring the veneer in hot sand. The
background is Ash and Olive Ash.
A friend of mine found a log at the curbside that someone had chopped down in their yard. The piece had burls and spalting running through the entire trunk, so he put it in his truck and took it home. I was lucky enough to get some of it.
Zebra Box
This was the first time I made something using Marquetry, my first design for Marquetry, and my first time making hand-made dovetail joints. It is Ebony with Guatambú and a border of Elm Burl. The box is made of Spanish Cedar.
13 x 6 x 4" 1994
Pez
A friend of mine asked me to make a special box for a special friend of
his. Her nickname is Pez and she is Irish, so I came up with this
design.
2001
The name comes from the art of the Ndebele tribe in Africa. They paint their houses with bright colours, separating each colour with black lines, forming patterns as I have used for this piece. 1998
To give my client an idea of what her 55" x 24" chest lid would look like I made this scaled down design. For this one I used Turtleback Poplar (thanks to Dave Bilger), Yellow Poplar and a central starburst of Benge.
13 x 6 x 3".
1998
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