Padauk and ebony recipe box


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I received an order for a padauk and ebony recipe box the other day. After working out the details we agreed on using padauk and walnut due to the clients budget.

So I went to the wood mill for the materials. And wow! Picked up two perfect pieces of padauk! Straight grained and nice color! To top it all off, while I was walking towards the walnut I saw a bin of dry split ebony. Figuring that I didn't need much, I'd take a look. And wow, I'm glad I did! I picked up an almost perfect piece of ebony. It has a very slight split at one end, which will not be used anyway, so no loss there! And the price was right! Obviously more than the walnut would have been, but the client should be really happy about the choice to go for it.

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when you get it done please put it on here 

 

on a side note i did the same thing where someone wanted ebony i told them how much it would cost and their mouth dropped to the ground wanting to know why.  so i explained about disappearing forests, difficult shipping with U.S. laws, small size pieces, and how they cut down entire forests to get one tree. so what i ended up doing was showing him a block of wood that i had ebonized with vinegar and steel wool. which turned the cherry black.  while it didnt have the hardness of ebony it did create the appearance he was looking for.  the reason i tell you this story is maybe you can use this process in the future      

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Update...

Sides are mitered and grain matched. Some hand work to get the miters perfect is in order. The top is a frame that will house a piece of ebony, to beak up all of that red. The bottom was resawn and planed to size. Grooves for the bottom are later out and ready to be cut after lunch. Then glue up!

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That piece of ebony is HUGE!

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It was about 20"x1". Resawed to three pieces. Two are about 3/8" thick ready to be planed down to 1/4" for the dividers and lid element, the other is whatever is left over. That will be for splines.

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There's gonna be red and black dust everywhere ! This is almost wood porn.

 

Seriously.... I used some bloodwood in a picture frame and my shop looked like a murder scene.

 

Mel - did you cut your mitres on your super-accurate mitre saw? 

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