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This wood was in a throw-out bin at a co-op shop making musical instruments. My sister worked there for a time and sent me a pile. It was a couple feet long and 3/8” to 1/4” stock, so there was not much room in which to plane or sand and it was warped, cupped, and very rough. Still, it took me a long time of making prototypes in pine before I would cut into it. (Pine protos shone in other project bin).
The wenge was very brittle with deep heavy grain. The padouk was lovely to work though also out of shape. I used a French polish on the body but then a varnish on the lid because I wanted to fill up the grain (and FP would have taken three times the coats to do so.) It took about 8 coats of the varnish and the grain still could have taken another three to really even out the surface. The stone is from a local beech.
Working with the wood makes me think often of my sister. She has always encouraged and supported my efforts.
I started doing finger join boxes at Christmas and this is the most recent (as of two weeks ago.)
-- SM
17 comments so far
CharlieM1958
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posted 588 days ago
Nice wood for the price!
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GaryK
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posted 588 days ago
Looks good to me!
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SM
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posted 588 days ago
Thanks Gary and Cousin Charlie. I’m having way too much fun skulking around here. Already I find I’m learning from just looking at others work and reading about their processes and machinations. At some point I am going to ask Charlie about working with burls and Gary about inlay. However, it is already 1:am my time so must sleep.
Thanks again
-- SM
grovemadman
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posted 588 days ago
Nice Box!
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Max
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posted 588 days ago
Great combination of woods, they go very well together. Nice looking box, I really like the finger joints.
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cajunpen
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posted 587 days ago
Great looking little box.
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davidtheboxmaker
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posted 587 days ago
Nice box – the two woods go together very well.
jockmike2
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posted 587 days ago
Beautiful box, I’d say you got the joints down pat. Nice touch with the stone. Really adds to the ruggedness of the wood. Great job. mike
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ND2ELK
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posted 587 days ago
You done good! Nice looking box. Thanks for posting.
God Bless
tom
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toyguy
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posted 587 days ago
good save from a junk pile….....
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GMman
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posted 587 days ago
Very nice box ..you know I save all my junk and there is always some little things you can do with it , I love wood so much that I cannot throw any away…
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Blake
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posted 587 days ago
This is another nice box… you’ve got a unique sense of style.
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Scott Bryan
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posted 587 days ago
This is a nice box. You did a good job with the construction and the finish looks good.
Thanks for the post.
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trifern
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posted 587 days ago
Very nice little box.
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todd2
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posted 586 days ago
NIce work!
BTW Did you wreck a your clothes from the Padouk dust? I made a coffee table out of solid Paduck and the pair of jeans & sweatshirt I worn were permanently stained!
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SM
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posted 586 days ago
Todd2,
I didn’t notice any stains, (not any that stood out from the usual permanent grunge), but I did have to isolate the sandpaper from the stuff I use on lighter wood.
The padouk had been stickered in the house for over a year, so that may have made a difference.
I did get wicked head-aches from the dust . I’m waiting for warmer days to do any more padouk projects so I can sand outside!
Thanks for the compliment.
SM
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dustynewt
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posted 533 days ago
Beauty box, Sara-marie.
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