Inlay Cube Box - Tunbridge ware style inlay

That’s pretty neat. I went to the Tunbridge Wells website. They have some wild stuff there. Not sure I’d try some of them, but the pattern you’ve used is good enough for me.

Turnbridges Wells style stuff seems rare around these parts.

Pity; it’s so lovely when done correctly, like your example.

Thanks for sharing.

How about blogging the process some time for the rest of us?

-- The nicer the nice, the higher the price!

I like this a lot.

Tunbridgeware is something I’ve kept an eye on for years. It has a long history.

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I can certainly see how it can involve so much time. These are really neat.

-- Randy, Oakdale, Ca.

Very nice.

-- Wes Giesbrecht http://www.wesgiesbrecht.com/index.htm

You are certainly very talented…

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In Turnbridge they invented the way as a method of mass producing identical wooden complex ‘pictures’ or patterns and were then able to make this an early form of relatively cheap product that underlay the economy of the town selling to the early ‘tourist trade’.
I should not have called it inlay as it is really more like marquetry done on a small scale and by making up long lengths of the whole picture or sections of a pattern by gluing long grain to long grain long thin sticks of different colored woods, so that many identical cross sections could be cut and then used to make the identical mosaic veneer designed end products. Many tradesmen became skilled at the method and factories developed to give them lifetime employment until eventually early in the 2oth century the fashion died.
Items are now collectibles and can include small furniture, ink stands , picture frames , game boards and snuff boxes.
Patterns can be worked out on graph paper before making up the wooden ‘logs’.
I like the way the endgrain catches the light and changes with different viewing angles.
If I do any more I might do a blog in the method. I made this as a ‘one-off’ as I am not into repetitive work but if you got keen it is a way of doing small patterns for inlay-ed borders or mofits.

-- David Australia

Thanks Larry – but I cant keep up with you!

-- David Australia

Great box David. I like the subtle use of different woods and the design a lot. Very classy. Beautiful work.

-- Better to say nothing and be thought the fool... then to speak and erase all doubt!

seriously nice box david!
i can understand why it took some time to complete, but the result has been well worth it :)

-- Flemming. It's only a mistake if you can't fix it.

Really nice work, box turned out wonderful

-- Norman