new to turning and SMC

[Kevin Main]

Hello I am new here and wanted to share my first attempt at a lidded box.
Don't Laugh

Kevin Main

[Paul Heely]

Hi Kevin. Welcome to the creek.

That's a fine looking first box. I think you'll find that nobody around here will laugh at anything you post. Everyone has to start somewhere. The fact that your first box is still in one piece puts it several steps above my first attempt at one. Make sure you save this one so in a few months you can look back and see how you have progressed.

What is sticking out of the bottom half? Did you inset a bottle into the wood?

Keep posting pictures, we like pictures.

[Greg Just]

Welcome Kevin - nice job - what are the demensions?

[Steve Schlumpf]

Welcome to the Creek Kevin! Nice looking first box! Looking forward to seeing more of your work!

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Welcome to the Creek and the Vortex Kevin!

[Dan Forman]

That's one more box than I have to my credit. Welcome to the creek, and don't ever be shy.

Dan

[Kevin Main]

It is five inches tall and 2 and a quarter inches in diameter at the widest point of the base. sticking from the top of the base is a plastic bottle mold before inflated.

Kevin

[Tom Sherman]

Kevin welcome to the Creek, you've gone and done now when you start spinning wood everything else seems to pale in comparison nice job keep em commin.

[Henry C. Gernhardt, III]

Welcome, Kevin. Who's laughing? Like Dan, that's one more box than I have to my credit. What kind of wood is it?

[Walt Nollan]

Welcome kevin! I joined last week and have found this to be a very informative site with lots of cool contributors.

Walt

[Dennis Peacock]

Hello Kevin,

Welcome to SMC!!!! Glad to have ya aboard. Enjoy the waters and there's lots of great folks here on SMC.

[Bernie Weishapl]

Hey Kevin welcome to SMC. Lots of good people and lots of knowledge here. Very nice looking box.

[Mike A. Smith]

Welcome Kevin!

[John Bartley]

Well, from one newbie to another .... VERY NICE !!! Nothing to laugh at there at all.

cheers eh?

[Ben Gastfriend]

:DWelcome! I just joined a couple months ago, and I already have lots of good friends with lots of good (and sometime sarcastic...) advice. Heck, I participated in the ornament exchange, and expecting a nice ornament from Mr. Peacock (see above) I got a nice ornament and and really nice bowl! Turners are some of the nicest people around!

P.S. I say this all the time- posting pictures will make most folks here really happy.