Whisky Presentation Box in Rosewood & Figured Tassie Oak

[luvmytoolz]

Hi all, there was talk of a lack of projects being posted, so I thought I'd share a recent custom presentation box I made for a special release from Starward, a local distillery.

It's done in some insanely figured Tassie Oak, with rosewood for the holders for the bottle, glasses and neck steady as well as the door handle.

The shots unfortunately don't do justice to the grain and colour, but you get an idea how it looks from the 3rd pic with the custom monogram that was lasered and then filled in with gold resin.

Ultra simple rebate and groove design for the 10mm thick stiles, rails and panels, then several coats of danish oil finish applied.

And of course 4mm Domino tenons were used to join it all together.

Everything came up nicely square and flush which was a win.

 

[Cheese]

Really nice job... I especially like the sculpting on the bottle & glass holders, that's a nice touch and unexpected.

What's attached to the neck steady, is that cork?

 

[luvmytoolz]

Thanks very much Cheese!

Yeah it's a self adhesive cork sheet cut down from some coaster pads I bought off Temu. The adhesive on them is something else, once it's stuck down it's never coming off.

I'm working on a more subtle, new spring loaded clamping cap design for the next batch to cater for different height bottles.

 

[derekcohen]

Nicely done, LMT.

The only issue is that the bottle of whisky remains full. how long will that last?

I wonder what the Tassie Oak actually is? For those outside Oz, Tassie Oak is a collective name for one of three different timbers. Most of the stuff I get and use is very plain, which I love for its delicacy. Also, it is all quarter sawn for stability, which makes for great drawer sude material ...



Regards from Perth

D

 

[Vondawg]

Thanks very much Cheese!

Yeah it's a self adhesive cork sheet cut down from some coaster pads I bought off Temu. The adhesive on them is something else, once it's stuck down it's never coming off.

I'm working on a more subtle, new spring loaded clamping cap design for the next batch to cater for different height bottles.

Very nice ! the grain is beyond words and as said the routing is perfect

 

[luvmytoolz]

Nicely done, LMT.

The only issue is that the bottle of whisky remains full. how long will that last?

I wonder what the Tassie Oak actually is? For those outside Oz, Tassie Oak is a collective name for one of three different timbers. Most of the stuff I get and use is very plain, which I love for its delicacy. Also, it is all quarter sawn for stability, which makes for great drawer sude material ...



Regards from Perth

D

Thanks Derek! I suspect this will probably be a permanent display item until the time comes for the owner to crack it open for that very special occasion.

I'm not sure of the exact genus as it's part of a small stash I acquired many years ago, the grain is out of this world, I've never seen Tassie Oak this spectacular.

Funnily enough I recently dug into my Vic Ash stash to build some cupboard doors, I got them in the early to mid 80's, with a lot of boards being 360-420mm wide (being semi-commonly available in that width then) x 20mm thick, and the grain is just incredible. Beats all the newer stuff at Bunnings hands down.

 

[tjbnwi]

Very nice display case.

Tom

 

[Cheese]

Thanks Derek! I suspect this will probably be a permanent display item until the time comes for the owner to crack it open for that very special occasion.

In my world, that very special occasion would be June 3rd 2026. Let's make sure this stuff doesn't go bad.

Well, when you get Derek's congrats...you've done well.

 

[luvmytoolz]

In my world, that very special occasion would be June 3rd 2026. Let's make sure this stuff doesn't go bad.

Well, when you get Derek's congrats...you've done well.

He does do amazing work!

 

[jeffinsgf]

Cheese beat me to it on commenting on the sculpting of the base. That really puts the project over the top. Do you mind sharing how you did that?

 

[luvmytoolz]

Cheese beat me to it on commenting on the sculpting of the base. That really puts the project over the top. Do you mind sharing how you did that?

Thanks for that! Always happy to share whatever info I can.

It wasn't really difficult at all, just took my time to avoid any tearout while machining it on the CNC with a 19mm cove cutter for shaping and a 2 flute straight cutter to cut it out.

I marked out the pockets for the bottle and glass with vectors, then added a vector with a small margin around the perimeter, adjusting it slightly for aesthetics.

The 1st pic shows the toolpath for the pockets for the bottle and glass cut with the cove cutter, I did run a tapered cutter around the inside of the pockets to widen them slightly and give a little bit of angle to help with getting glasses and the bottle in and out.

The 2nd pic shows the toolpath used to create the curves on the front with the cove cutter.

The 3rd pic shows the final result after cutting it out, which then gave the result as seen in pic 4.

Hope I've explained it well enough?

 

[Crazyraceguy]

That's really cool. I especially like the detail of the added glasses and the accompanying profiled holders/pockets.
Looks like a Shaper Origin could handle that.
Is this something you are making to sell?

 

[luvmytoolz]

@Crazyraceguy Thanks CRG! This one was a very custom one given the unusual glasses and was a little tricky as the glasses weren't the same dimensions, they all vary a bit due to the way they're made.

I have another batch of a more generic design in Purple Heart waiting for me to continue work on, that in these early stages I'm planning on selling along with a bottle of old and/or limited release whisky.

This next lot will be machined with a CMT rail and stile panel cutter set instead of the way I did this one, with the side carvings still to be decided on, and a lasered large brass insert for the door.

It's always a tricky balance to add decorative touches without it ending up too busy or gaudy.