Carved Cedar Bentwood Box -COMPLETED

[Frank Pellow]

...Then I completed the cut using a special long tree trimming blade on my reciprocating saw: ...

Neat. For future reference for other readers:
http://www.milwaukeetool.com/accessories/cutting/48-00-1303[/url

I highly recommend these blades.  I find that more than half (maybe even three quarters) the "forestry management" work on Pellow's Island that I used to have to do with a chain saw I can now do with a reciprocating saw.  My chain saw is one of my least favourite and most feared tools so this discovery is much appreciated.

 

[Frank Pellow]

We're not worthy!  Extraordinarily not worthy...  That is the stuff most people don't have the patience to even think about anymore. Very impressive and nicely done !  That's one I'll be mentally saving for when I have a few hundred years of practice under my belt.

Well that's an 'over the top' compliment that I don't deserve but that I do appreciate.

Love the craftsmanship exhibited here. Nice informative thread, thanks, very helpful!

PW

Thanks, I really did try to make this thread a "how to" tutorial and it appears that I succeeded in dong so..

 

[Frank Pellow]

I have now started to paint the box.  For the most part, I am using the colouring scheme suggested to me by Steve Brown.  Among other things that means that only the four traditional 'pre-European-contact' colours will be used.

Before I started painting, I burned the initials of the two creators of this box along with the year of its creation.

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The paints that I am using are acrylic applied over some type of base.  I tried several things as a base including, among others: shellac, clear varnish, and Tung oil.  In the end, the base that I used for the totem pole I carved a couple of years ago seemed to work best for the box.  That base is (oil based) Varathane Golden Pecan stain:

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Finally I started to (slowly) apply the  paint:

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[Frank Pellow]

COMPLETED

Here are two photos of the completed box:

Front Sides:

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Back Sides:

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[greg mann]

Wow! That is great work, Frank.

 

[Dan Clermont]

Nicely done Frank!!

Too bad you couldn't make it down to the store. I would have liked to have seen your Bentwood Box up close

Maybe next time

Dan Clermont