Mixing It Up With A Change, Padauk And Wenge

Nice looking sir.

-- Nature created it, I just assemble it.

Very handsome box! I love the color combination and the satin finish is really nice! Great job!

Sheila

-- Designer/Artist/Teacher. Owner of Sheila Landry Designs (http://www.sheilalandrydesigns.com) Scroll saw, wood working and painting patterns and surfaces. "Knowledge is Power"

A subtle beauty. I like the color combination of the woods you chose. I like a satin finish best because it doesn’t look like plastic. The exception is a highly polished gloss like french polish that is so clear and perfect that it doesn’t have the plastic look.

-- Mike, an American living in Norway.

Very nicely done and I really like your color/wood decisions. I agree the highlight is the hinges, but the top gives that a real run of the money. The only thing missing IMHO is the alligator lining that Greg uses—just a thought.

-- John C. -- "Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth." George Washington

Love the colors in this piece. The hinges are interesting and look good on this box. Nice work Randy.

-- St Augustine FL, Experience is the sum of our mistakes!

Beautiful job. Great choice of woods, too.

Lee

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I like that combination of woods. Now if you can just sculpt it like Greg does….....

-- " I'll try to be nicer, if you'll try to be smarter" gfadvm

Nice box, Randy.Tthe satin finish makes it more elegant!

Good going!! Cheers, Jim

-- Jim Jakosh.....Practical Wood Products...........Learn something new every day!! Variety is the Spice of Life!!

Great looking box Randy…the Padauk and Wenge look great together…well done.

-- Dave.......If at first you don’t succeed redefine success....

That looks sharp.

Yes, satin finish all the way! Love those hinges too.

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Thanks everyone for you nice comments also with the decision on Satin.

Andy I don’t want to push my luck. LOL

I’ve read but not real sure that I can refinish all of my boxes from the current gloss finish to a satin by simply wiping a coat of satin over the old gloss finish, anyone know this to be correct?

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Nice. A fir piece from where you started. LOL! Randy my understanding is gloss coats can be rubbed down with extremely fine grit or ooo0 ought steel wool. But I’m thinking it depends on thickness of the coat?

-- Cau Haus Designs, Thomas J. Tieffenbacher

^ +1 to what Doc said Randy… As a last step, I usually take a Scotch Brite pad and scuff up the finish.
Then clean up any dust with some clear End-dust furniture polish… Real simple, and it helps to smooth out any coarseness left in the finish too!
Great Job on the Box, I like watching how your hinge designs are evolving and developing!!

-- Mike in Concord, NH---Unpleasant tasks are simply worthy challenges to improve skills.

Great box and nice work. The colors do look Halloween scary.

-- Tom D