walnut and maple box

The top is fantastic! I do like the maple box with the darker top! Ya done good!

-- Never board, always knotty, lots of growth rings

Very Nice! I like the clean design where you just let the wood speak for it’s self.

-- Darrell, Round Rock

Amazing piece!
I think is a very clever design, the box doesn’t steal the show, that is the natural beauty of that figured walnut…...in one word: wow!

-- Francisco Luna, San Francisco Bay Area.

A box set for the double wow club , Fantastic fiqure

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

It looks great. I really like the walnut in the lid…that has some amazing grain.

Thanks for posting it.

-- Martin, Kansas

Excellent box and ditto on the design, it really lets the wood speak for itself. Well done.

Is that a veneered top? If not, did you account for expansion on the lid? I don’t see a gap anywhere…..

JC

-- Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. -Carl Sagan

JC, maple and walnut are very similar as far as expansion goes. its been in the house for a few weeks now with no issues. I did not allow for it so time will tell. I also didnt finish the inside of the box so that the wood can breath. if it lasts long enough I may make a tray for the inside to make compartments. I’ve made several boxes with this design and so for have only had issues with one made with pecan. it was left in an attic for some time and blew apart! hehe the customer couldnt understand why! :-]

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You’re right . That poor Maple doesn’t stand a chance against that beautiful Walnut top ! Sweet , clean design overall : )

-- You know you're getting old when you know the difference between you're (you are) and your (belonging to you) AND how to use them in a sentence .

Fantastic! Wow! Holy C*!

Love that wwalnut! and the lighter Maple realy sets it off.

Great Job.

Keep it up.

Scrappy

-- Scrap Wood's the best...the projects are smaller, and so is the mess!

That walnut is knockout….. great job…

Rob

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I think the fact that the maple is fairly plain is a good thing, because it just emphasizes how spectacular that walnut is. Great job!

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Wow!! What a beautiful combination of woods. Boxes….bowls….what is there you don’t excel in?

-- Gary, Huntsville. May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Beautiful box, The top is an eye catcher.

-- Mike, Bruce Mississippi = Jack of many trades master of none

I know what you mean. I hate those bits also.
The walnut crotch is beautiful.
You did a good job.

-- ''Carry on my wayward son''

That top is realllllly cool!
Nice work.

-- Ellen on Cape Cod

Sweet!

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.