Maple Leaf box

Nice box! Like the Maple leaf….. Not to impressed with the Birch however.

Thanks for sharing

-- Chuck Emery, Michigan,

Gotta love the Maple leaf.
Did you get that one from google images?
It looks exactly like one I have used that I found there… a great source for images.
I like the box. Nice and clean and simple, it lets the leaf be the focus of attention.

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Thanks for sharing the technique about making the lid pop out and still keeping same grain pattern. Nice job on the lid.

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Great job!!

-- Jack, Albuquerque

I love the way you re-sawed the Oak and then matched up the leaf an lid to make it look almost translucent!

-- HorizontalMike -- "Woodpeckers understand..."

love the maple leaf. a nice canadian maple leaf at that. beautiful. take a look at the box I posted last week. I carved a maple leaf in the lid. very beautiful. http://lumberjocks.com/projects/71397

-- My purpose in life: Making sawdust

Nice grain match, I like the box.

-- Mike.... West Virginia. "Man is a tool using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.". T Carlyle

I love this technique and how the grain carries through the leaf. Favorited! And to think I almost passed this by from the title.

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I love how you keep the grain of the wood going with the leaf. Well done

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That is a really cool idea. Never saw anything like it. Nice work.

-- -- Don from PA

Very innovative how you carried the grain through the maple leaf. Great job!

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I’m with Rance, ingenious technique.
First I thought it was routed but it’s way easier and much less messy.
I don’t really care for boxes but I do like yours with its simple and natural elegance. Thanks for posting.

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