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Inspired by the night sky paintings of Vincent Van Gogh and a song by Don McClean

Dimensions - 138mm high x 100mm square overall.

Box, 100mm square x 50mm high (5×1 mm laminations, curved on a 375 to 380 mm radius)

Top, 3×1mm laminations
Legs and top detail, 3mm with 'V' profile on outside edge

Materials - Pau Amarello and Purpleheart

Adhesives - PVA and Viscous CA

Finish - Spray Satin Acrylic

Starry Starry Night - Don McClean

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Martyn, I like the delicate feel and sweeping curves of this design. This is truly a thing of beauty. Of course, the choice of woods is lovely as well. What an all together wonderful and imaginative creation. Thanks for sharing this with us. Keep boxing and keep posting.
 

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Very nice box, the shafe is really marvelous … and the execution looks perfect.
A pure pleasure to look at your piece of art !
 

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Beautiful shape and colour. Inlays,once again, made this project to get higher rank from my point of view.
 

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Wow Martyn! So delicate, and so fine. Awesome!
 

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Very elegant and delicate, Martyn. And one of my all-time favorite songs as well.
 

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Wonderful design and outstanding build Beautiful.
 

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Thank you all for the wonderful feedback.

Paul, (shipwright). The tunes seem to stay with me during the design phase, I even play them, but I listen to a rock station (planetrock.com), in the workshop, whilst making in order not to be driven mad.

Well a little explanation of how I make these seems to be in order (for Philzoel). Not a full blog but some indications



The corner mitres for the box are pegged through holes in the legs (2mm cocktail sticks) into the sides. The holes in the sides are drilled using this jig and a drill press (precise hole depth is essential)



and a copy of the cad drawing to locate the holes



The top is made on a former/jig



Which sits inside the box during construction (it just slips in) and the pieces of the top are glued using industrial viscous cyanoacrylate (super glue).

There are more jigs for various operations, about five in all, but no photos where taken at time of assembly hence no blog.
 

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Beautiful box! I like those delicate, curvy legs, and the Purpleheart!
 

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I clicked on this and saw that you made it and wasn't surprised. Still a very well-executed box. Beautiful.
 

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I missed this one while on holiday. Your boxes are always different and imaginative, certainly an outside-the-box thinker.
 

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I missed this one while on holiday. Your boxes are always different and imaginative, certainly an outside-the-box thinker.
 

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Nice Martyn, it looks very French.
 
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