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Cocobolo with blackwood insert inside the lid. 6 vertical rows of 13 cuts. Each cut is 12 degrees offset from the cut below it. Cuts are 1/16 apart. Each vertical row deviates 120 degrees from it's starting point at the bottom. 3.5" high. Oil finish. Please view detail pictures as...

-Blood wood and wenge -8.5" tall -Oil finish The finial features a pattern repeated 4X. It also features convex fluting (most regular woodturning flutes are concave). The body features 60 cuts, 6 vertical rows of 10 cuts each. Each cut is offset 6 degrees from the one below it...

Details of rose engine turned patterns.

4" tall. Oil & wax finish. Cocobollo multi axis ornamental turning. Pattern repeated 6x around the base. 12 flutes on the top.

4" tall. Cocobollo. Oil and Wax finish. Multi-axis ornamental turning. 2 patterns repeated 6 times around the surface of the body.

The top is turned eccentricly. The base was done on my rose engine. It appears to be a spiral. The effect is from seperate grooves cut as the work recriprocated on the spindle (in coordiation with the turning motion). As far as I know, this effect is only possible with a springloaded spindle.

Cocobollo, pear and walnut.

A SheOak box with a raised diamond pattern on the body. The diamonds are produced by cutting right hand spirals, then overlaying left hand spirals.

A mesquite box with Pink Ivory inlay in top. A basket weave pattern has been cut into the body.

A ornamental rosette has been engraved into the lid.

Moridillo box with brass lids. There is a sinewave pattern around the length of the box.

Cocobolo box with Snakewood finial.

A pernambuco box with ebony finial. The lines are cut all the way through. Based after a chinese cricket box.