Claro Walnut Small Box

Wow, that is some gorgeous wood and a great finish!

Even after a careful setup for those fingers, I’d still have hesitated to being on that Walnut.

Beautiful.

-- Tyvekboy -- Marietta, GA ………….. one can never be too organized

very niiiiice !!

thanks for sharing Mike

Dennis

Beautiful box and nice save! :)

-- Bill, Yo!......in Brooklyn & Steel City :)

This looks GREAT!!

Did you sand away the Gloss and spray with semi gloss?

Whatever you did, it looks GREAT!!

-- Have Fun! Joe Lyddon - Alta Loma, CA USA - Home: http://www.WoodworkStuff.net ... My Small Gallery: https://www.ncwoodworker.net/forums/index.php?media/albums/users/joe-lyddon.1389/

Beautiful box from some beautiful wood. Wonderful finish.

-- John, British Columbia, Canada

That is SOOOO nice Mike. Maybe when I open the non profit this year you can come and teach it sometime. :)

I have a turned box in the same wood but not as nice but with a curly maple top

-- It is always the right time, to do the right thing.

Mike, it was a bit a challenge, but you persevered and ended up with a beautiful box. Thanks for sharing.

-- Art

Such beautiful wood! Great job!

-- Dave, York, PA, Wildside Woodworking

Great box Mike, you have mastered the box joints and really made that grain pop!

-- Good judgement comes from experience and experience comes from poor judgement.

Thanks folks! I did sweat some bullets while making this as the wood did cost a pretty penny… ;-)

-- HorizontalMike -- "Woodpeckers understand..."

Awesome!

-- Bob in WW ~ "some old things are lovely, warm still with life ... of the forgotten men who made them." - D.H. Lawrence

Where did you find the wood?

-- Good judgement comes from experience and experience comes from poor judgement.

Where did you find the wood?
- Tim Dahn

I found the Claro Walnut at my local WC. They had an entire pallet of this stuff and I was about the first to have a chance to pick it over. $8lb. not cheap, but spent over an hour carefully stacking and re-stacking the pallet as I picked out one at a time. In other words, I got the best of the best in that pallet.

I just made sure that each piece was at least 12in and not much over (didn’t want waste). So basically the box size was dictated by the size of stock purchase. I did screw up on one 5×6 piece when I got a kick-back in the gut. Ouch! Other than that, I just took my time finishing (with Joe’s advice).

-- HorizontalMike -- "Woodpeckers understand..."

beautiful box