Mahogany Box With Wavy Accents

I like it! Sweet little box.

-- Gene 'The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.' G. K. Chesterton

Nice very nice Charlie

Great box Mr. Box master, AKA Charlie.

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I like the accents and the dowels give contrast.. nice..

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Charming and well made box Charlie. Everything nicely done. I like waves and the dowels too.

-- Mike, American in Norway

Nice box Charlie. Are the waves laminated into the mahongany or truly an inlay on each side. Could that dark wood be Wenge?

-- Canadian Wood Chuck (Bruce)

The vertical grain on the ends looks good. Not sure what dark wood smells cinnamon. It looks somewhat like Peruvian Walnut, but the smell?

-- Robert, so much inspiration here, and so little time!

Charlie: A great looking box.

I don’t have any idea on the cinnamon wood.

I’m not sure on the Mahogany. That’s a lot of color variation in the wood. I’ve seen sap wood and heart wood and Mahogany does have lighter sap wood.

-- I've been blessed with a father who liked to tinker in wood, and a wife who lets me tinker in wood. Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

I love it when you “play around !”...... it’s always guaranteed that something special will come out of it…
Really nice little box, love the wavy inlays…. have to try that sometime.

As far as the cinnamon smell, could it be some kind of dark rosewood? They sometimes have various “fragrant” smells to them…...

-- Gene, Majestic Eagle Woodworks, http://majesticeagleww.etsy.com/, http://www.flickr.com/photos/majesticeagle/

Bruce, the dark curves are this strips of the darker wood laminated into the lighter board. I just made a couple of wavy cuts on a single board with the band saw, the glued it back together with the this dark strips, and finally I cut that into three pieces to form the top and sides. I thought about the darker wood being wenge, but it is smoother than samples I’ve seen.

Karson, I know what you mean about the color variation not looking like mahogany, but it has a luminescence that really does look like mahogany, so I don’t know.

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

Nice work Charlie.

Lee

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Gene, now that you mention it, there was supposed to be a species of rosewood in that sample box.

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

As Gene said, it is fun to watch you play.
Nice looking piece Sir.

Steve

-- -- I'm no rocket surgeon

Beautiful work, Charlie :=)

Elm and Brazilian Walnut have a cinnamon smell.

Your Mahogany may be Ipe (African Mahogany).

I really like how you break symmetry with the inlay curves’ “oscillations” being different. Nice touch.

-- If you're going to stir the pot, think BIG spoon or SMALL boat paddle. David Grimes, Georgia

Hi Charlie

Very Nice, makes me think of chocolate, very smooth and tasteful, I like the added plugs, looks real good, thanks for sharing

-- It's Mic Keep working and sharing