[kywoodchopper]

For my grandson's birthday I made him a box out of tiger maple and ziricote wood. The finishing is my regular stuff - Zar oil base poly mixed 50/50 with paint thinner mineral spirits. This is applied with the blue paper shop towels.

Since the top is made of ziricote, it is an oily wood. I wipe it down with denatured alcohol and applied shellac. Waited 8 hours and applied another coat. Then applied several coats of the poly / mineral spirit finish.

The top pivots on 1/8" brass rods that are about 1 1/2" long.

Several folks have asked if the top was walnut that I did something funky with. Nope! Since the back and front are different lengths boards it was a tad hard to get the box square. I don't think I'll make any more with this design. When my wife first saw it she said I should make a lot of them.

I got the ziricote from a local veneer company even though the wood is solid and not veneer. The board was 2" thick and 12" wide by about 4' long for $200.00.

Oh, the top and the splines are all ziricote. First time I had made splines out of the wood.

Malcolm / Kentucky USA

 

[woodknots]

Malcom - absolutely gorgeous box - he should be happy to receive it - I know I would be

 

[Herb Stoops]

You did it again, Malcolm, Just beautiful.
Herb

 

[Shop guy]

Very nice.

 

[kklowell]

Wow...just wow! Very, very nice!

 

[Gaffboat]

You are The Master at this, Malcolm. Superb.

 

[hawkeye10]

Malclom you have done it again. Keep it up I love looking at them.

 

[honesttjohn]

Great!!

 

[difalkner]

That just looks awesome, Malcolm! So that's about a $20 top on the box, right? :wink:

Ziricote is high priced wood, for sure, but it is beautiful.

David

 

[MEBCWD]

Malcolm that is one BEAUTIFUL box.

I like the design but I can see where it could more time consuming, but I think well worth the effort.

 

[TenGees]

You're the craftsman to work with that exotic wood, Malcolm. They wouldn't let me near that.

 

[JFPNCM]

Superb workmanship. Always a pleasure to view your posts.