Oak, Becote, CocoBolo, Purple Heart and Lignum Vitae Hinged Box

[Jon Wolfe]

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I’ve made a few boxes to play with different types of joinery and wooden hinges.
There is a very thin strip of maple that separates the bocote/cocobolo for contrast.
These are not hand cut dovetails though I will be making some soon now that I have hand tools.

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I’ve not worked with purple heart much and I’ve heard the color changes or fades after time. How can it be treated to keep that gorgeous purple color?
Here is a view of the box with the lid open so the purple heart shows more clearly.

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This box is just treated with some tung oil.
You can also see the Mesquite and Turquoise turned Heart that I am working on.
I intend to use borosilicate glass to make colored flames that are coming out of the valves on the heart.
I’ll post that later.
Thanks for looking.

[Charlie Jones]

Interesting. A nice project. I like the wooden hinges.

[Jon Wolfe]

Thanks Charlie,
The hinges are fun and the lignum vitae is a great wood to make them from.
jon