Mushroom box.

[Jack Mincey]

There was a challenge to turn a mushroom on one of the other turning sites, so I turned this for it. I've made some like this in the past. This one is turned from a piece of apple. It is 5" inches tall. It makes for a shallow box but puts a different twist on a mushroom.
Thanks,
Jack
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[Chris Haas]

very cool. i like it a lot

[Skip Spaulding]

Very nice , I like it, great shape and color. Well done!

[Steve Schlumpf]

Jack - love the imagination! Great form and even the grain of the Apple adds to the effect! Pretty cool idea! Thanks for sharing!

[Bernie Weishapl]

Jack great looking box. Great imagination.

[Mark Hix]

cool mushroom. I was expecting the stem to be the box.

[Ron Lynch]

Pretty nifty

[Jeff Nicol]

Jack, I really like that! I think I will put that on my list of things to turn, it has lots of potential to use my threading jig! Very nice and thanks for sharing it with us!

Jeff

[ROY DICK]

Jack,
Very interesting form. Must be magic.

Roy

[Ted Calver]

Jack,
Nice form and execution. I really like the apple.

[dennis kranz]

That is nice. I have not seen one made that way.
Dennis

[Steve Mawson]

Yep, I am impressed as well.

[Curt Fuller]

I've seen a lot of turned mushrooms but I think this is the first that was also a box. That's really cool. I also like the way you photographed it in a natural "mushroom" setting.

[Rick Hutcheson]

Now that is a neat looking box. It will definately be on my to do list to make some of those.

[Jack Mincey]

Thanks for the compliments everyone. It is a fun project that I've had a few of my High School Students do over the last couple of years. Do you think I've actually created something new? I just figured someone else would have made a box similar to this before. It would be cool if I could say that I actually created the first one. Something that is becoming very hard to claim with all unbelievably creative turners in the world.
Thanks,
Jack

[Gary Herrmann]

Jack,
Must be magic.
Roy

Flashback.

I do like the form though, Jack. You should box that up with some dark shavings that look like moss.

[Jack Mincey]

I just did a search and there seems to be several other turners doing boxes out of mushrooms. I don't know exactly if they are just hollowing the stem or doing something like mine. They don't show any pic's of them open. There goes my claim to fame.:D:D
Thanks again,
Jack

[Rick Hutcheson]

It is sure your design by me, I have never seen one like it before.

[Dave Ogren]

I think that you just did it again, Jack. Very nice I really like it.

Dave

[Scott Lux]

Let's see, a beautiful and clever design, well executed in my favorite wood? Please take this as it's intended... I hate you so much. :D

[Dan Forman]

Very cleaver and well executed.

Dan

[Bob Espy]

Now that's a box outside of the box!!!:D

[mickey cassiba]

Doggone it...my wife saw the mushroom and she thinks it's the "bee's knees"!(Me too. Really nice!) Now I have to at least try one. Gotta learn to shut down the 'puter when she comes in the office...kidding of course.
I'm a long way from anything like that, but I'm trying to get there.
More dumb questions to follow...
Mickey

[Scott Lux]

I showed my wife, and she loved it too. I've never tried a box. Guess I better start.

[Alan Tolchinsky]

Thanks for another project to do or at least try.

[Moshe Eshel]

This is going into my TODO list, even if not in box form, I don't see much practical use for the box (though it IS cool). But i LOVE the form... so into "woodturning projects" folder they go...