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February 2025 Challenge: Curt Vogt Wins!

Pick your TWO favorites

  • Jerry Bochenek

    Votes: 15 32.6%
  • Tom De Winter

    Votes: 7 15.2%
  • Eli Finkelstein

    Votes: 9 19.6%
  • Bob Henrickson

    Votes: 6 13.0%
  • Gabriel Hoff

    Votes: 11 23.9%
  • Rick Moreton

    Votes: 13 28.3%
  • Tony Rozendaal

    Votes: 3 6.5%
  • Curt Vogt

    Votes: 19 41.3%
  • Walker Westbrook

    Votes: 4 8.7%

  • Total voters
    46
  • Poll closed .

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This month's challenge was to turn one of three possible boxes: a Neil Turner urchin box, Ray Key finial box, or Richard Raffan cross-grain box. We had nine total entries, and each one is very nice. Now, the challenge for all forum members (this means you and me) is to choose a winner. Voting begins now and concludes at 11:59p-ish (USA Eastern time [UTC -5]) on Friday, 28 February, 2025.

You are allowed two votes; once you have voted, you won't be able to go back and change your votes. After you have voted, you can track the vote totals. The voting is secret (just like an actual election), so nobody else can see who you voted for (not even the moderators/administrators). In case of a tie vote, the forum moderators will gather in a virtual waist-deep shavings-filled shop to determine the winner.

As in all previous challenges, the winner might have to pass a lie detector test before being awarded the Grand Prize (rumored to be a high-carbon dogleg SRG).

The following are this month's entries:

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Big congratulations to @Curt Vogt for winning this month's challenge with his beautiful Raffan-style Curly Maple box. The victory was well-deserved, and hopefully serves as inspiration for a few boxes in the future. Nice job to everyone else that participated in the challenge. I had no idea how the votes would go, and suspect I wasn't alone there. Cheers!

I will post next month's challenge soon. Stay tuned!
 
Congratulations.

Isn't it interesting that the voters strongly preferred the 2 lidded boxes rather than the 'finial' boxes. Not to take away from the winner, but I wonder if that style is inherently more pleasing than the other.
 
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