This box with threaded lid started with African Blackwood. Then a thin layer of Holly was wrapped around the exterior, glued, and turned down to a thickness of 0.030”. A cylinder of African Blackwood was hollowed to fit over the Holly, glued, and turned down to a thickness of 0.020”. The keyboard pattern was cut through the exterior black layer and into the holly on an ornamental lathe (that I built myself). Additional ornamentation was cut on the top of the box and inside the box with the ornamental lathe.

This box with threaded lid started with African Blackwood. The two pieces were first hollowed inside. Next, matching pieces of hard maple were turned to an exact fit, glued, and hollowed leaving only a thin layer of maple remaining. This was repeated with a piece of brown ivory wood, glued, and turned so that only a thin layer remained. The interior pattern was cut with an ornamental lathe (that I built myself). The cuts went completely through the thin layers and into the outer shell of blackwood to create the contrasting colors in the interior pattern.

I turned this small bow from Spalted Bradford Pear. The spalting takes a normally boring variety of wood into a swirl of color anf figure. The knob on the lid was turned from Ebony. The box has multiple coats of  Arm-R-Seal 

This is a small box that was turned from Norfolk Island Pine. After turning the box I handcut glass and fitted it to the exterior of the box. I also turned the lid out of the Norfolk Island Pine. The lid was turned super thin (1/8") so I impregnated it with Cyanoacrylate glue for strength. I applied an ebony offset knob on the lid. The box is aprox. 4" wide by 4" tall. I applied a coat of Arm-R-Seal finish to the exterior.

This is a small lidded box that was turned from sycamore. Then a basketweave texture was applied to the exterior and it was ebonized. I left the interior of the box natural to allow you to see the wood and offer some contrast. The lid is also sycamore with a live oak burl inlay some additional texture was added with a power carver. I applied Arm-R-Seal to the interior and exterior.The size is 4" wide and 3" tall.

A pencil pot with mahogany lid and base. Base was placed in a plastic container then broken pencils placed on top then liquid resin poured on and then a mahogany blank placed on top.

when set a dovetail chucking point was turned into the base. The piece was then turned round and a chucking point was turned into the top. Then the top was parted with a parting tool and the inside of the pot was shaped with a spindle gouge. Then the out side was done and bothe were finished with beeswax. 

The lid was then fitted in the lathe. And turned to shape and finished with beeswax.  

This form is the simplest of the Platonic solids, a tetrahedron. A Platonic solid is a regular, convex polyhedron. It is constructed by congruent regular polygonal faces with the same number of faces meeting at each vertex. A tetrahedron is composed of 4 equilateral triangles, the simplest of the Platonic solids.

The form was generated totally on the lathe by turning an interior spherical hollow and mounting it on 4 vertices to turn the faces.

Based near Broadford in the south of the Isle of Skye, Scotland, I specialise in making and selling small, high quality turned wooden boxes. They range from pure and simple designs to more ornamented pieces. I aim for a perfectly formed little piece of artwork, for display as an accent piece. Not many people use them to store things in!