Acorn Boxes

[hilltopper46]

I've posted these before on the Other Things You Make forum. I make and sell a lot of these. This one is a little bit special because of the woods involved - the cap is teak and the bottom of the box is lignum vitae. I had to wet sand the bottom because the lignum vitae clogged up the sandpaper. The top is textured with a Wagner tool. The threads are cut with an EZ-Jig from Chefwarekits.com. For finish, this only has the oil/beeswax product that I used to wet sand the bottom which I also applied to the top after texturing.

 

[Edgar]

Very nice!!

 

[1080Wayne]

Beautiful work , Tony ! Hope your local squirrels understand that it is not a significant source of other nutrients .

 

[RichAldrich]

Nice Acorns!

 

[Mortalis]

That is soo cool!
I am so impressed by so many of the different items the IAP members make.

 

[Jim15]

Great work.

 

[tomtedesco]

Fantastic workmanship.

 

[bmac]

Very nice, I seen a demo at a symposium in Helen, GA where Willard Baxter turned these and threaded them on a threader he designed. He even made them small enough to make ladies ear rings.

Bobby
Louisiana

 

[hilltopper46]

He even made them small enough to make ladies ear rings.

Bobby
Louisiana

The smallest I can go is ~9/16 inch ID on the cap as the cutter is 1/2 inch diameter. Those make a very nice little pendant.