{"id":9033,"date":"2011-01-30T18:05:56","date_gmt":"2011-01-30T22:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.woodworkersguide.com\/?p=3300"},"modified":"2021-09-13T15:06:26","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T15:06:26","slug":"african-blackwood-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/african-blackwood-boxes\/","title":{"rendered":"African Blackwood Boxes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Here are a couple of small, woodturned African Blackwood boxes. The larger one is about 3″ tall and 2 1\/4″ in diameter. The smaller one is about 2″ tall and 2 1\/2″ in diameter. As you can see, they both have been textured quite a bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The taller box has been textured with staggered ‘brick’ to make its cylindrical shape almost castle-like, perhaps a turret .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The smaller box, with it’s fez shape, seemed more suited to be mostly textured with a few bands of plain wood left for contrast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both of them have been finished only by polishing and buffed with wax creating a brilliant shine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s some more photos:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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