| Project by Daren Nelson | posted 474 days ago | 1432 views | 13 times favorited | 18 comments |  |
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If you are familiar with Zen gardens here is one I made yesterday. I am thinking about getting into box making, looks fun, but don’t have “stuff” that I need to put in a box ? (what needs to be in a box, came in a box) So I decided to make a box that was a garden.
The garden is suspended on top and the drawer below holds the rocks and tools when not in use. I wanted to stay black and white so I used walnut (with some sapwood), hard maple, white sand and black rocks. The windchime was an afterthought, one I do not like today though. I may add more rocks if I find neat ones and have plenty of room in the drawer for them.
I need some practice in my “gardening” techniques, but you get the picture how they work.
Now as a guy of course I am already thinking how fun a toy bulldozer would be in there .
-- Urban logger, http://nelsonwoodworks.biz/
18 comments so far
lew
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posted 474 days ago
Yeh! Heavy Equipment!!!!
Nice looking garden!
Lew
suliman
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posted 474 days ago
It is nice idea
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Bigbuck
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posted 474 days ago
Interesting
Very nice looking garden!
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thetimberkid
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posted 474 days ago
Great job!
Thanks for the post
Callum
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jeanmarc
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posted 474 days ago
superb work
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teenagewoodworker
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posted 474 days ago
very nice garden. i love the contrasting maple and walnut.
PurpLev
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posted 474 days ago
I love the hanging effect of the top box… thanx for sharing, this one is a keeper!
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jm82435
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posted 474 days ago
Great garden, love the drawer idea. A sandbox for my desk… I wonder if I would ever get anything done, or if I would be Zenned out all the time…
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Chardt
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posted 474 days ago
I hope you don’t have a cat…otherwise, you might get some decidedly unZen-like designs.
It’s cool though.
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woodworm
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posted 474 days ago
Beautiful “out of box” concept and design.
Great job.
Take care & work safe
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trifern
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posted 474 days ago
Nicely designed and executed. You’ll have to make stuff to put in your stuff so all your stuff has a place (I miss George Carlin). Thanks for sharing Daren.
-- My favorite piece is my last one, my best piece is my next one.
Bradford
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posted 473 days ago
Joann’s fabrics and Michael’s art supply sell little glass beads that look like rocks in assorted colors. Or you could make your own wood rocks with some hot glue and a belt sander or grinder. But the little bulldozer and some construction men standing around is zen enough for me.
-- so much wood, so little time. Bradford.
TreeBones
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posted 473 days ago
Very cool, eye candy.
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SteveKorz
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posted 473 days ago
Very cool…
Those can get addicting if you make different tools to work the sand. This is a neat idea…. (just don’t let the cat find it tho!)
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rb765
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posted 471 days ago
Wow, I better not let my son see this thread or he will want too.
-- Sure Dear, I can make that for you. Lemme just run out and get a tool I need for that.
Dorje
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posted 470 days ago
Nice! What are the dimensions? Looks huge in the pics…
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Daren Nelson
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posted 470 days ago
Dorje, the boxes are 9”x11” and 1 1/2” deep each. It is a hair over 4” tall overall.
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hrvoje
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posted 168 days ago
this is cool…I will steal your idea on this one :)
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