| Project by BassPimp | posted 213 days ago | 767 views | 2 times favorited | 12 comments |  |
 |
Hello This will be my first post. I just caught the wooding working bug a couple of years ago. These are some pictures of my first jewelry box, and first real wood working project. I’ve made some picture frames before this, but those are nothing compared to this jig saw puzzle. The door has 118 pieces if I remember correctly. I used maple, (regular, curly, quilted and birdeye), bloodwood, ebony, canary, lacewood, rosewood, cocobolo, cherry and ash. I essential raided my father inlaws scrap wood bin. The handle is actually a piano key, from a piano that was left out for trash by my work. I ended up only buying the ebony, rosewood and curly maple. The rest was scrap that I had from picture frames and my father inlaw’s scrap. It is approx 10”x10”x24” in size.
This was my wife’s xams gift a couple of years ago. She has a degree in architecture so she loved the design. I wish I would have video taped her reaction, she was stunned.
Hope you guys like it, it took a long time to make.
| Pin It |
12 comments so far
TomTinkerSum
home | projects | blog
218 posts in 2001 days
#1 posted 213 days ago
pretty amazing – thanks for sharing
Summer
-- If a woodchuck could chuck wood, he's probably not a Lumberjock --
littlecope
home | projects | blog
2325 posts in 1668 days
#2 posted 213 days ago
Very Nice BP, love the door!
Welcome to LJ’s and I’m looking forward to more of your work!!
-- Mike in Concord, NH---Unpleasant tasks are simply worthy challenges to improve skills.
rkoorman
home | projects | blog
356 posts in 991 days
#3 posted 213 days ago
Looks great !!
-- http://thewoodworkersattic.blogspot.com/
Monte Pittman
home | projects | blog
7047 posts in 505 days
#4 posted 213 days ago
First ones always take forever. Really nice job.
Welcome to LJ’s
-- Mother Nature created it, I just assemble it. - It's not ability that we often lack, but the patience to use our ability
woodworm
home | projects | blog
14104 posts in 1757 days
#5 posted 213 days ago
Beautiful.
-- masrol, kuala lumpur, MY.
deon
home | projects | blog
1164 posts in 1192 days
#6 posted 213 days ago
Amazing pattern!
-- Dreaming patterns
majuvla
home | projects | blog
1576 posts in 1034 days
#7 posted 213 days ago
Looks awsome with all those types of woods and colours. Interior design is also very pritty.
-- Ivan, Croatia, Wooddicted
Fishinbo
home | projects | blog
4182 posts in 342 days
#8 posted 213 days ago
The design is simply spectacular. I dig this.
Roger
home | projects | blog
9191 posts in 970 days
#9 posted 213 days ago
Super nice. Super Wow!
-- Roger from KY. Work/Play/Travel Safe. Kentuk55@bellsouth.net
kody
home | projects | blog
138 posts in 445 days
#10 posted 213 days ago
Beautiful work. You have done a fine job.
gfadvm
home | projects | blog
6618 posts in 857 days
#11 posted 212 days ago
I too am stunned! That is a remarkable piece of work. The door glue up looks like a nightmare to me but you did a great job. I assumed it was veneered until I saw the inside of the door.
-- " I'll try to be nicer, if you'll try to be smarter" gfadvm
BassPimp
home | projects | blog
4 posts in 213 days
#12 posted 212 days ago
The door was built laying on top of a flat piece of marble that was covered in wax paper and then clamped to the marble to hold it in place. I used painters tape for some of the row work. So glue up was slow
Glad you like the design, I didn’t have a set design just kept adding pieces, like building a puzzle. SWMBO thinks it looks like a queen with her hands on her hips. I started in the lower middle part of the door, as I worked my way out and up you can see the pieces get bigger because i was getting tired of cutting little pieces. I was trying for some of that Franklin Llyod Wright feel, but still orignal
Have your say...