Boxes and Other Lidded Vessels
Page Two
Updated 09/27/08
These are some photos of only a few of the boxes and lidded vessels I have been turning.
Some older photos have been removed
Project 06-061
Spalted Maple Lidded Box
This box is made from the same piece of soft spalted maple as project 06-007. The finial is cocobolo. It is 4” high and 2 3/8” diameter. The finish is mylands.
Project 06-052
Lidded box
For this lidded box I wanted to have the base
and the finial flow into the body smoothly.
I had to spend a lot of time on the joining surfaces so that they would
mate perfectly. The body is Afzelia burl
(from
This project is also found on the Woodturning
Fine Art page.
Project 06-007
Spalted Maple Lidded Box
This piece is made from some rather soft spalted maple and is 3 inches high and 2 ¼ inches in diameter. The foot and lid ring are from walnut and the finial is snake wood. The end grain gave me no end of problems with tear out. I finally had to saturate the end grain with sanding sealer and cut it with a very sharp tool. Even so, there is some tear out.
Project 06-004
Walnut Lidded Box
This piece is 3 inches high and 1 7/8 inch diameter. The finial is marble wood and the finish is carnauba wax. This wood might not be walnut so says a few of the people in my local woodturning club.
Project 05-084
Cocobolo Lidded Box
This piece is 3 ¼ inches in diameter and 4 1/8 inches high. The finish is orange wax.
Project 05-082
Spalted Norfolk Island Pine and Cocobolo Lid
This piece is 7 ¾ inches high (including the lid) and 4 1/8 inches in diameter. The vessel body finish is Hut wax and the lid is carnauba wax.
Project 05-069
Honduran Rosewood box with Cocobolo Lid
This box is a simple but elegant design. The overall height is 4 ¼ inches and the diameter is 2 ½ inches. The finish is orange wax.
Project 05-062
Honduran Rosewood Lidded Box with Oak Insert
This box is my first attempt to put an insert into a piece. I used two thin pieces of oak about 1/16 inch thick and I had to sand them to fit into the saw kerfs. The overall height is 5 inches and the diameter is 2 ¾ inches. The finish is lacquer.
