Ambrosia maple box

Looks really pretty.
What kind of wood ?
Lid retainer is a nice touch,
install looks great.

Lisa

-- Imagination rules the world. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte ~ http://quiltedwood.com

Nice box!

This is usually referred to as ambrosia maple, because those streaks aren’t really spalting,,,, they are caused by an insect known as the ambrosia beetle.

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

In the sawmill business, it is Wormy Maple, and it is pallet lumber. When I sell it or making something from it, I call it Ambrosia Maple.

Nice box, I like that it is from one piece of wood and that the streaks line up. (I love Ambrosia Maple and use it quite a bit) before I finish it however I use forced air from my compressor to blow the fine dust out of the holes.

-- There's many a slip betwixt a cup and a lip.--Scott

sweet, where did u get a lid retainer that small?

-- Ike, Big Daddies Woodshop, http://www.icombadaniels@yahoo.com

Nice!

-- Dan ~ Texarkana, Tx.

Pretty cool box neat design.

-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/

Thanks, that is my error. It is ambrosia maple.
Lid retainer came from Woodcraft.

-- geppettoswoodshop.com

Fantastic box. Wonderfull wood. Did you router it out or is bandsaw?

Keep it up.

Scrappy

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

My process of making boxes from one piece of wood is to cut the outside shape. Cut the top off. Cut the bottom off, then scroll saw out the middle piece. After that I glue the bottom back on and apply finish

-- geppettoswoodshop.com

Nicely done! It seems like you could make an even smaller box out of the cut-out from the middle of this one.

-- A bad craftsmen blames his cheap #$%ing tools

The Ambrosia Maple is beautiful !

-- When did quiet and quite become the same word ? I'm guessing about the same time as your and you're did.

Very nice. I have quite a few ambrosia maple bowl blanks. I think at least one of them is now destined to be a box.

-- Rich, Cedar Rapids, IA - I'm a woodworker. I don't create beauty, I reveal it.

i use Ambrosia Maple a lot wood looks cool
nice box good design
thanks for sharing

-- self proclaimed copycat

is the lid a single piece of maple

-- kosta Virginia Beach, VA http://www.kostasworkshop.blogspot.com/

The lid is a single piece of maple. The entire box was cut from one block of ambrosia.

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