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Birdseye maple and mahogany box

comments (5) October 17th, 2009 in Reader's Gallery

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Birdseye maple bpx with mahogany accents and corner splines.  8.5 x 5 inches.  Leaf is done in three parts with mahogany center vein. Lid is hinged with steel pins.


Design or Plan used: My own design - J. Schutz
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Jurgen01 Jurgen01 writes: A beautiful box. It will be much treasured by the person who receives it and much admired by those who see it. Very well done!
Posted: 7:56 pm on October 27th

jbschutz jbschutz writes: Johndk,
After carving several one-piece leaves for other boxes, I decided that the two halves of the leaf should have grain at a 45 degree angle from the center vein. Then, I happened on an easy way to do that. I start with two pieces of 1/4 inch stock, about 2.5 inches square, and glue them one on top of the other with the grain of one at 90 degrees to the other. I glue together two opposing corners. After the glue has set, I bandsaw the center vein line from unglued corner to unglued corner and cut off the glued corners. Now the left piece from the top layer should match the right piece from the bottom layer, and vise-versa. Then I cut a very thin piece of contrasting wood and glue and clamp the three pieces together. Once dry, I saw out my leaf and shape the upper surface with my Dremel and sanding sleeve. I back bevel the lower edges to give the leaf the illusion of being very thin. Good luck.
Posted: 12:48 pm on October 20th

jbschutz jbschutz writes: Johndk,
After carving several one-piece leaves for other boxes, I decided that the two halves of the leaf should have grain at a 45 degree angle from the center vein. Then, I happened on an easy way to do that. I start with two pieces of 1/4 inch stock, about 2.5 inches square, and glue them one on top of the other with the grain of one at 90 degrees to the other. I glue together two opposing corners. After the glue has set, I bandsaw the center vein line from unglued corner to unglued corner and cut off the glued corners. Now the left piece from the top layer should match the right piece from the bottom layer, and vise-versa. Then I cut a very thin piece of contrasting wood and glue and clamp the three pieces together. Once dry, I saw out my leaf and shape the upper surface with my Dremel and sanding sleeve. I back bevel the lower edges to give the leaf the illusion of being very thin. Good luck.
Posted: 12:48 pm on October 20th

johndk johndk writes: Beautiful work! Can you give us more detail on how the leaf was done?
Posted: 7:42 pm on October 19th

coonsy coonsy writes: Nicely done JB.
Posted: 10:40 am on October 19th

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