Yellowstone Souvenir Box
The lid displays a photograph I took of The Lower Falls Of The Yellowstone River. The photo is protected by non-glare glass.
This is a box I made to contain two souvenir mugs from Yellowstone National Park. The box and mugs were a gift to two friends.The primary wood is poplar. The dark accents are walnut. The exterior finish is oil based puritan pine stain and several coats of wipe-on poly.
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The lid displays a photograph I took of The Lower Falls Of The Yellowstone River. The photo is protected by non-glare glass.
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I carved the arrowhead shaped applique on the front of the box to resemble the design of the National Park Service logo.
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The interior finish was sort of a happy accident. The walnut stain I applied first was very splotchy and looked terrible. Next I experimented with spattering some oil based teal green paint over the splotchy stain. That was a miserable failure. I quickly wiped off the paint with a rag and voila!
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The hinges were shiny new, brass plated steel. I immersed them in muriatic acid for a couple days to remove most of the plating. Then they were thoroughly cleaned and sanded. The final antique look was acheived by heating the steel with a propane torch and applying Birchwood Casey's Plum Brown. The same process was used to "antique" the lid support chain.
The tag inside the lid identifies the photograh on the top of the box.
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