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" Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does

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" Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does

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..."