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Mothers Day Wood Turning Marathon Special box for Sarah

Hi Everyone,
Well the big day has arrived.

Ive sharpened the tools:

And Ive cleaned up the shop..well almost cleaned up the shop:


Im going to round off the top of the box first and then hollow it out. Here is the beginning of this stage of the turn:

Here is a photograph several minutes later. Ive rounded off the sides and created a small bead on the mouth of the box:


Here Ive begun hollowing out the box. I just wanted to make it deep enough to hold earrings or other special stuff and not completely hollow it out:


This is the box several minutes later. You can see that the box is deeper and a little wide and the bead shows up prominently:


Here is the box after its been sanded, both inside and out. Now its time to turn the lid:


And Ive begun turning a tenon on the underside of the lid. This has to fit exactly into the box so it took about 20 minutes of turning between this photo and the next photo:


Great. This fits the box perfectly:

And here is a photo of the blank on the box. Time to shape the top:


 Since the top will be the first thing everyone sees it has to look great and emphasize the roundness of the box. There also is not going to be a finial on the top of the lid so it needs a a rim that can serve a a point for picking up the lid off the box.  Here Ive begun undercutting the lid:

I wanted the underside of the rim to match the diameter of the opening of the box and they match:



Here is the lid almost done. The top is a little too high so I turned it down more:


And now the lid is finished:


And here is the bottom of the box. The turning it done:


Here is a photograph of the box:

Woo Hoo!

I took it inside and wiped off the dust and put a coat of linseed oil on the top and bottom. Here are the finish photographs:




And here is the lid. If you look closely youll see a tiny hole at the edge of the lid at about 9 0clock. Thats a tiny worm hole that was present in the block of wood at the beginning. I kind of like having that little hole there:

And were done. I am going to apply a coat or two more of oil to the box and the lid and then let it cure for a day or two. At weeks end Ill send off the box to Sarah.

Happy Mothers Day to you all.

If youre a Mom, I hope you have great kids and you get to see or hear from them today.

If you lost your mom this year or if shes ill, know that Ill keep a prayer for you.

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Our next project is to finish Hollys bowl and Ill get to that later this week.

Take care and have a wonderful day and thanks for dropping by the wood shop. As always its a pleasure to have you here.

Best Always,
VW