The body of the box is Yellow Box burr from Australia, while the legs are made from Palmwood from Southeast Asia. The lid combines the two, while the base of the box is made from Camphor Laurel.
This was a wonderful commission to make a full-sized traditional tuck box using this amazing man-made wood veneer. The box has a lift-out tray inside and is edged with Bog Oak.
The body of the box is Yellow Box burr from Australia, while the legs are made from African Blackwood and Pink Ivory. The lid combines all three woods, while the base of the box is made from Camphor Laurel.
The body of the box is Red Mallee burr from Australia, while the legs are made from Bog Oak. The lid combines the two, while the base of the box is made from Honduras Rosewood.
The walls and lid of the box are Quilted Maple veneer. This has a wonderful figure that seems to move in the light. The black elements are Bog Oak, while the legs are made from Palm.
The body of the box is made from solid Walnut, with the lid being veneered inside and out in Burr Walnut. I used the traditional technique of using four consecutive sheets of the veneer to create a ‘four-way book-match’.
Bridge boxes contain two packs of high-quality playing cards, two matching pads of score cards and four pencils. The internal compartments are lined with suede, while matching ribbon ‘pulls’ make it easy to remove the cards and score pads from the box when the game is afoot.
This box is made from ‘Lacewood’ (quarter sawn London Plane).The 197 individual ‘tesserae that make up this box all came from a single plank of Lacewood that was the most dramatically figured that I have ever seen.
The body of this box is made from Bog Oak, carbon-dated to 3,300 BC. I added individual ‘tesserae’ of Bog Oak, veneered with a brilliant red-dyed veneer.
This square box uses three forms of Oak, with fumed Oak used as a veneer on the lid and for the base. The main body is in Brown Oak and the lid in regular ‘white’ Oak.
This complex box is made from African Wenge laminated on to English Lacewood. I then carved through the Wenge to reveal the wonderful figure of the Lacewood in a series of ovate depressions that are very tactile.
The panels of the box are veneered in Quilted Maple while the inside is veneered in Rippled Maple. The black elements are Bog Oak, inlaid with exotic Pink Ivory from Africa. From the same continent, African Blackwood has been used for the legs.
This box is made from three rare woods from three very different parts of the world. It is veneered in Amboyna Burr on the outside and Rippled Maple on the inside. All the black elements are Bog Oak, while the legs combine the Bog Oak with solid Amboyna Burr.
This fun box is veneered in a unique man-made wood veneer that I found to make the ‘Tiger tuck box’. This box, like the others in the series, has a lift-off lid. All the black elements are Bog Oak.
This jewellery box was made in Lacewood (quarter sawn London Plane) with the internal compartments sized to house some much loved and very precious pieces.
