Wenge & Curly Maple Box 1

[Scott Coffelt]

I made this box for my lovely wife for Xmas. I mentioned it a last week, but I had forgot to take a picture before wrapping. Let's just say she was totally shocked and excited ( Santa Clause had a good night ;) ;) ;) ).

Anyways, the box is made from Wenge, the drawer fronts are Curly Maple, the rest of the drawers were Baltic Birch. The balls are wood with 24kt gold leaf. The finish it one coat of clear lacquer then sanded smooth (filled in grain), three coats of wipe on satin poly and then a good coat of med. brown Bri-wax and buffed to a polish. I lined the drawer with some black felt, may change that to crushed velvet some day but I didn't have any handy.

I really like how it turned out. Man is it heavy. I figured I have around $100 plus in wood in it (that Wenge and C. maple sure is expensive around these parts).

[Dick Parr]

Very nice Scott, I bet she loved it. That is a project well done and I like the design of it. :)

[Kurt Aebi]

Very Nice, Indeed!

Excellent work, Scott!

[Jack Diemer]

Wow, is that the over priced piece of wood you bought over the summer.

Turned out great.

[Jim Ketron]

wow nice Job Scott!

love the grain of that wood and the drawers just set it off
Jim

[Dennis Peacock]

A most Excellent job there Scott.!!!! :D

I like the design and the use of the contrasting woods. You did very good on this and your work is very nice and clean. A job well done!!!! :D

[Terry Hatfield]

Scott,

Beautimus!!!!!! The contrasting woods are super!!!

t

[Kirk (KC) Constable]

Man, I like that design! Does the top box come apart from the bottom?

KC

[Dave Brandt]

ooooo, very nice Scott! I like it alot. Maybe a good "subject" for the design forum?

[Wes Newman]

Scott, Great job. Did you gold leaf the feet yourself?

[Chris Padilla]

Looking good, Scott! You turn out some good stuff from that tiny basement shop of yours...imagine what would come out of a nice 24 x 36 shop!! :) How is the new house coming along??

[Scott Coffelt]

Man, I like that design! Does the top box come apart from the bottom?

KC

The top and btoom are attached with 1/4" dowel rod that passes through the 3/4" balls.

I was rushing to get done, so I had no time to take progress picks. If interested, I will be happy to provide dimensions and some detail as to angles, etc. In the end it is a pretty simple design.

[Scott Coffelt]

Looking good, Scott! You turn out some good stuff from that tiny basement shop of yours...imagine what would come out of a nice 24 x 36 shop!! :) How is the new house coming along??

Thanks Chris,

The shop/house progress update. We just wrapped up final plans, I now have to go through all the approval and city applications. I am holding out small hope that maybe we can break ground in late February (weather permitting).

Gold Leaf: Yes, I did that myself. Pretty easy and supplies were found at the local Hobby Lobby.

[Jim Hinze]

That is a very beautiful box!!! Wow.

[Jim VanBramer]

Great job Scott ... very nice, clean design. How did you finish the maple? to keep it so light??

[Scott Coffelt]

Maple has one coat of wipe on satin poly and then a coat of natural Bri-Wax. It really is almost white looking. I think more of the curly comes out with the lacquer finish, but I wanted to stay with the satin sheen.

[Jim Becker]

Beautiful design, Scott, and great execution! I do have to admit I was perplexed by the move from lacquer to polyurethane, but your most recent post at least helped with that. Did you consider continuing with lacquer and then rubbing out with wax and 0000 wool??

[Scott Coffelt]

Beautiful design, Scott, and great execution! I do have to admit I was perplexed by the move from lacquer to polyurethane, but your most recent post at least helped with that. Did you consider continuing with lacquer and then rubbing out with wax and 0000 wool??

I had thought about that but went ahead with the wipe on approach.