Spalted quartersawn red oak dovetail box

Awesome old wood look!

-- Ivan, Croatia, Wooddicted

Interesting wood. The DT’s look pretty tight. Look like a success to me.

Thanks for posting.

-- Think safe, be safe

Thanks Majuvla and Therealsteven.

That’s a nice looking box. It draws my attention over fancy boxes with lots of embellishments. I’m a big fan of spalted or figured wood. When you have patterns and grain that look like this I think a simple design like you made is the best way for the wood to be the main feature of the piece.

-- Earl "I'm a pessamist - generally that increases the chance that things will turn out better than expected"

Thanks EarlS. It means a lot to me.

Beautiful wood to make a great box. Well done.

-- Galootish log blog, http://www.timberframe-tools.com

Nice work. Am a fan of spalted red oak – lots of interesting stuff.

Thank you swirt and rwde. Very kind of you.

Great looking box. You know, I think everything I build I find something wrong with it. I have gotten to the point of saying to myself, “it turned out just the way I wanted”.

-- Larry in Hawaii,

Great way to look at it Hawaiilad. Thanks.