Decorative boxes

The egg box was turned from a piece of Ash with a distinctive grain making it easy for the collector to realign the top and bottom to the orientation of the wood before the piece was turned. The stand is turned from a separate piece of Imbuya and engraved around the rim.

Hight 160mm (6.3")

This box is tuned from a single piece of Brazilian Imbuya and was designed to have an oriental feel to it. Only the smallest amount of wood was removed when separating the lid from the base giving an almost perfect alignment of the grain.

Height 85mm (3.3")

This design was inspired by the Faberge eggs.

The wood used is Purpleheart for the egg with carved leaves of Ebony and inside are three small egg boxes.

Both the finial and stand are Ebony.

This is based on the first ornamental egg I made but with some changes to try and create a more delicate and interesting piece. The first of these changes was to redesign the stem to an open barely twist and then smaller carved ebony leaves were added around the top of the egg. Smaller turned pieces have been added to the three small turned acrylic egg boxes inside.

The first of these boxes contains three small yew mushrooms set onto a piece of bark. The second has a forest of fir trees turned from hazel along with a tiny turned tree stump, again all set onto bark. The other small egg contains a blue wine bottle and two wine glasses, turned from acrylic, set onto a pink ivory tray. I think these tiny pieces of turning complement the whole piece well and create a new level of interest to the piece. The three acrylic eggs sit on an ebony platform that is fixed to the lower half of the egg. The main egg is turned from mountain laurel because it has a lovely creamy, almost egg colour to it. The two halves of the egg are hinged together. The base is also turned from mountain laurel, whilst the stem and finial is turned from ebony.