Sinker Cypress Box

Greg, this is an OUTSTANDING box in every regard. You’ve been a terrific inspiration to me, and I look forward to your project posts. I really like the grain of that cypress and especially your shaping. Very artistic!

-- Ron Wilson - maker of fine firewood!

Way cool. That is an awesome box!!!!!!!!!!..................Jim

-- Jim Jakosh.....Practical Wood Products...........Learn something new every day!!

congratulations! Keep up the great work!

-- Cau Haus Designs, Thomas J. Tieffenbacher

Super slick, as always Greg. Is that aligator hide in there, or what? thnx. nevermind, I went back up and finished readin LOL

-- Roger from KY. Work/Play/Travel Safe. Kentuk55@bellsouth.net

Another full blown winner VERY nice.

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

What a masterful job. Your work stretches the limits of imagination as to what a box can be and can become. On your next post please share what all four sides look like so we can better appreciate your art. Thanks for sharing and inspiring. Looking forward to the next installment of your work.

-- Big Al in IN

I have not made a box yet but you got me thing of try one lol will have to see if I can make one out of pallet and have it look good I know mine will never look as good as your but I got to try some day just for fun .
Nice work

-- Nimkee** Joe

I imagine one of these about blanket chest size. My cats would be uncomfortable sitting on it. LOL I remember working with cyprus in Arkansas. Made a deck out of it. Had to use a sledge hamer to drive nails through it. Hard on your cutters?

-- Cau Haus Designs, Thomas J. Tieffenbacher

I really love this one! I didn’t know cypress could look that good. Is the sinker cypress harder than non-sinker? The gator hide really goes well with the sinker cypress. Great job (but I expect no less from you). I saw some sinker cypress the last time I went to Woodcraft in Tulsa but they were way too proud of it for me!

-- " I'll try to be nicer, if you'll try to be smarter" gfadvm

I am very happy for you that the show has gone so well. This is another beauty.
I have worked with pecky cypress but not the sinker cypress. It is pretty.

Joey

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Masterpiece !

-- Use it up, Wear it out --------------- Make it do, Or do without!

That a wild lookin’ box nice color and finish..

-- Tom D

Grandaddy1…Thanks…I am flattered that I can inspire someone by just having so much fun creating.

I really appreciate the great feedback everyone…Thanks..
Thomas…The Cypress is not a hard wood…in fact it is fairly soft. Its main property is being so extemely rot and insect resistant. It grows alot in the swamps and Bayou regions and frequently with the tree base in water.

Andy…The sinker cypress is harder than the new growth cypress..I think primarily because it has been underwater for over 100 years and and the resins have hardened. the boards I have came from a log that was submerged in Lake Pontchartrain. The boards were air dried for around 3 years before I got them.

Joey…I like the pecky cypress alot. I am supposed to get a bunch sometime soon and i plan on building a new display for my boxes with it. I thought of using some once before for some sculpting but I felt it had too much pecky in it that would not go well with sculpting.

Boxguy…I will show some side photos when I take more pictures…

-- Every step of any project should be considered your masterpiece if you want the finished product to reflect the quality of your work. http://www.FineArtBoxes.com

Yet another work of art!

-- Dreaming patterns

This might be your best box yet! The cypress and the reptile came from the swamp. They go together beautifully. A “swamp box”!

-- Art | Bradenton, Florida