Keepsake Box - Spalted Maple Sawn from Firewood

[Robby Tacheny]

Two years ago I rescued 3 spalted maple pieces of firewood from a relatives firewood pile. This year I got to give them their firewood back, along with a little African Mahogany, Purple Heart, and Poplar (for sides and bottom of drawers). Finish on the box is BLO and 3 - 4 coats of clear Shellac that was rubbed out with 0000 Steel Wool. The pictures are from the my cell phone, but hopefully they show off the grain nicely enough.

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-R

[Joseph D'Orazio]

Thats extremely nice work and wood. I really like that spalted stuff.

[Cody Colston]

That is super nice. I love spalted wood and I love to hear of "rescued" wood that is put into a project. Great job in both instances.

[gary Zimmel]

That is some real nice looking wood in that project. And bonus points for the fire pile rescue...
Real nice work on this one Robby.

[Donny Lawson]

Very nice project. Wish I could make something like that from my wood pile.
Donny

[Jim Becker]

Oooh...I like that! Nice job!

[Robby Tacheny]

Thanks for all of the kind words. It was a pretty hard one to put together, but in the end it came out nice.

I was most pleased with the African Mohagany. I had never used it before and it was really easy to work with and looked good with a finish.

-R

[glenn bradley]

That box rocks. I really like the design at that scale. The materials you've chosen don't hurt a bit either. Very nicely done.

[Dewayne Reding]

I really like those Robby. I was going to ask approximate size until I finally noticed it was sitting on a chair.

[Paul Bombardt]

Robby,
That is a really beautiful piece. Your choice of the mahogany really compliments the spalted wood.