Project by Greg the Cajun Wood Artist | posted 02-10-2016 01:55 AM | 2458 views | 5 times favorited | 20 comments | ![]() |
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A sinker cypress box with oak hinges. Gator Leather lined bottom… I tried making some cypress hinges but the kept splitting and breaking way too much..no good for hinges.
I first tried placing the hinges on this box without flush mounting them…but it really made them look too bulky. I will stick with recessing them like I have been doing on previous boxes…
11”x7” x 3.5” with some danish oil rubbed in.
-- Wood for projects is like a good Fart..."better when you cut it yourself" Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does
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shipwright
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#1 posted 02-10-2016 03:23 AM
Amazing grain! ... and you really made it sing.
One of my favourites you have made. (I could never narrow it down to one).
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#2 posted 02-10-2016 03:48 AM
Southerner,
Paul’s comment triggered this…( to the tune of amazing Grace) ” Amazing grain, how sweet the sight, in waves that wash over meeee. I once was blind( about boxes) but now I see. I was ignorant but now I’m nooooooottttt! Art in a box is what I seeeeee! LOL!
The grain and the carving are in Harmony!
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Greg the Cajun Wood Artist
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#3 posted 02-10-2016 05:00 AM
Paul…Thanks…! One of the things that drew me to woodworking many years ago was the amazing beauty of some wood grains. When I am lucky enough to find one of those special boards it becomes a challenge to make something with it that doesn’t waste it’s amazingness. I hope it did this piece of sinker cypress justice.
Tom… I can hear you playing your guitar as you sing…. When is the CD coming out?
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#4 posted 02-10-2016 05:25 AM
Love some cypress and that sinker has some great color. I’d say it came out great.
Question: do you look for quarter/rift sawn stock when working with species that exhibit little to no ray flecking? Or it depends on the species/piece?
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#5 posted 02-10-2016 05:49 AM
The quarter sawn has the best grain…but most importantly is finding the old growth cypress that has the extensive and close growth rings
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#6 posted 02-10-2016 11:47 AM
Beautiful! Congrats!
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#7 posted 02-10-2016 01:21 PM
That wood has a beautiful grain in it. Great box!
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#8 posted 02-10-2016 01:35 PM
Also one of my favorites of the boxes you have shown us, really nice flow to it.
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#9 posted 02-10-2016 01:44 PM
LOL ! Good one, Tom !
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#10 posted 02-10-2016 01:44 PM
What? Why didn’t you show us the Gator lining??
Beautiful … as usual !
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#11 posted 02-10-2016 03:46 PM
nice. better proportions …
-- Bruce. a mind is like a book it is only useful when open.
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#12 posted 02-10-2016 03:54 PM
I really like this. Great lines and grain. And cool hinges!
-- Dave, York, PA, Wildside Woodworking
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#13 posted 02-10-2016 04:07 PM
These boxes are so beautiful and I love the design.
helluvawreck aka Charles
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#14 posted 02-10-2016 05:56 PM
Beautiful – love the hinges set in
-- Dick, Malvern Ohio - my biggest fear is that when I die, my wife sells my toys for what I told her I paid for them
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#15 posted 02-10-2016 06:52 PM
Great job! Beautiful work shaping with the figure in the piece!
Would have liked seeing the inside as well…
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