cabin sunset box

Incredible beauty

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Wow,

Vey nice, I love the details, did the thatching give you as much trouble as it looks, very fine detail.

And those dovetails, beautiful. may I ask what jig you used

Thank you for posting

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Wow – Sir, you are indeed a Craftsman!

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Very unique box. Can you give us the dimensions and a peek at the inside or a description perhaps? Just beautiful!

-- Jim

Great joinery and dauntingly beautiful marquetry. That sod roof and the clouds are superb. You make a fine box.
Do you do pad marquetry or double-bevel?

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

Great looking box. You did a beautiful job on it. Thanks for posting.

God Blerss
tom

-- Mc Bridge Cabinets, Iowa

Great box – superb joints, and fine marquertry

very nice!!!

-- Dennis Zongker

This piece is actually my second marquetry pattern. The box itself was or is pretty simple. The dovetailed key miters were probably the most difficult. I had to make two different jigs and run the box on edge over the router table. I had to make the two different jigs because the first pass created the larger dovetail and when I lowered the bit, had I passed it through without redoing the jig, it would have splintered out the back. The inside of the box just has a velvet liner. I didn’t have time to put in any detail, and actually the box was already to expensive to sell. So I really wanted to just make it a display piece. So I just put some larger things in it and call it good. Unfortunately for the marquetry, I’m not that experienced and am teaching myself. So an exacto knife is all I use. I cut out the piece being inlayed, put it over the background and trace it with the knife. Then cut it out. Everything is commercial venneer including the background so there isn’t any routing like on an inlay. I tape the whole thing together and put it into the vacuum press. It’s pretty simple, but time consuming. Anyhow, thank you all for commenting. Your words mean a lot

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Vey nice,and fine marquertry

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WOW, how did I miss this beautiful box? Great craftsmanship, very WELL DONE!

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Excellent kolwdwrkr. You really do have talent.

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