Sinker Cypress

Amazing grain! ... and you really made it sing.

One of my favourites you have made. (I could never narrow it down to one).

-- Paul M ..............the early bird may get the worm but it’s the second mouse that gets the cheese! http://thecanadianschooloffrenchmarquetry.com/

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!

-- Cau Haus Designs, Thomas J. Tieffenbacher

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?

-- Wood for projects is like a good Fart..."better when you cut it yourself"

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?

-- Shooting down the walls of heartache. Bang bang. I am. The warrior.

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?

- TheFridge

The quarter sawn has the best grain…but most importantly is finding the old growth cypress that has the extensive and close growth rings

-- Wood for projects is like a good Fart..."better when you cut it yourself"

Beautiful! Congrats!

-- Tichomir Toth, Slovakia, http://wood.wellcenter.sk/

That wood has a beautiful grain in it. Great box!

-- We all make mistakes, the trick is to fix it in a way that says "I meant to do that".

Also one of my favorites of the boxes you have shown us, really nice flow to it.

-- Bob in Montana. Kindness is the Language the blind can see and deaf can hear. - Mark Twain

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!

- DocSavage45

LOL ! Good one, Tom !

-- Perform A Random Act Of Kindness Today ... Pay It Forward

What? Why didn’t you show us the Gator lining??

Beautiful … as usual !

-- Perform A Random Act Of Kindness Today ... Pay It Forward

nice. better proportions …

-- Bruce. a mind is like a book it is only useful when open.

I really like this. Great lines and grain. And cool hinges!

-- Dave, York, PA, Wildside Woodworking

These boxes are so beautiful and I love the design.

helluvawreck aka Charles
http://woodworkingexpo.wordpress.com

-- helluvawreck aka Charles, http://woodworkingexpo.wordpress.com

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

Great job! Beautiful work shaping with the figure in the piece!

Would have liked seeing the inside as well…

-- Randy "You are judged as much by the questions you ask as the answers you give..."