jewelry chest of ‘plum pudding’ cherry – tree cut from this farm, sawn on my woodmizer, air dried 3 years – app. 17″ wide, 9″ deep, 12″ tall – only hardware is the screw on which the catch rotates and the brads – ‘shoji’ style leather hinges from a long ago FWW tip – boiled linseed oil finish – I’m waiting for it to dry thoroughly before applying some decoration/genealogy/dating –
I’ve seldom worked on this scale – I’m more at skilled at residing barns – a pleasant winter challenge – thanks for looking –
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Beautiful box(s)!
There are some pretty good pieces in this compitition, hard to really say which is the "best" but you've already won with your wife and children. Good job.
the quality of so many of these objects is such that I do not envy the judges trying to pick the 'best' - I wonder if they are questioning what they got into
I'm under no illusion that my craftsmanship rises to the level represented by the elites in this contest - my consolation is that I have given the best I have to the ones I love as a remembrance - that's good enough for now -
eh - too long a story to get into here, but building these in January and February this year represented a sorely needed catharsis -
With its graceful curves, cabriole legs, and ornamental back splat, a Queen Anne side chair is a bucket list build for many woodworkers. Dan Faia had a very specific Queen…
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David
Beautiful box(s)!
There are some pretty good pieces in this compitition, hard to really say which is the "best" but you've already won with your wife and children. Good job.
Doug
thank you for your kind words Doug -
the quality of so many of these objects is such that I do not envy the judges trying to pick the 'best' - I wonder if they are questioning what they got into
I'm under no illusion that my craftsmanship rises to the level represented by the elites in this contest - my consolation is that I have given the best I have to the ones I love as a remembrance - that's good enough for now -
eh - too long a story to get into here, but building these in January and February this year represented a sorely needed catharsis -
namaste -
D
Purrrrdy!
piece could scale up to a blanket chest size and hold its presence.excellent work.
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