All Boxes

This box is made from yew, one of the quintessentially English woods, and also one capable of producing the most stunning grain patterns and colours. This particular piece comes from a bend in the yew tree, and the image shows the wrinkles in [...]

I recently bought a few blanks (couldn't resist), and this box is made from one of them. Black walnut is a very beautiful wood to turn, lovely to hold and caress, and just amazing to look at. A very simply shape, with sycamore handle on the li [...]

This would make an ideal jewellery box. It's made from yew, showing off the beautiful contrast between sapwood and heartwood. The box is suspended in a carrier of dark exotice hardwood, which itself is embedded in another carrier of sycamore, [...]

This is somewhere between Art Deco and Bauhaus style. The idea just came to me while I was playing around with various bits of figured sycamore, and no particular finished item in mind. The box itself is big enough to hold pencils or fountain [...]

This  box is made from two different pieces of ash. The bottom had quite straight grain, and was a bit bland in colour. The top is from a tree that had heavy curling and quilting in addition to a figure called olive ash (similar to brown oak, [...]

A very elegant tall box, made from Cypress, with a chilean laurel lid and a cherry sapwood finial. Coloured with just enough blue dye to let the grain of the wood shine through, and then finished with a carnauba and bees wax mixture. This will [...]

A small box, made from Sycamore. About 5" tall and 2" diameter, ideal for small items of jewellery such as earrings, cuff links, or maybe as a container for a surprise gift?

This box was made as part of a range of boxes, from which I had to choose one to enter a competition. The one I did enter came second, and later I was told by one of the judges that had I entered this box, I would have won. So much for my pers [...]

This is one of my favourite pieces to date. Inspired by shapes seen on Cindy Drozda's website, and definitely an eye-catching piece in any collection. The center piece is essentially a box, with a lid on top, and it's hollowed out as far as my [...]

This box was a competition entry, and it won second prize. I made several designs, and this form was one I had in me head for a long time. Making this box was actually quite a drawn out process with lots of little steps. I am a big fan of art [...]