This box is a retirement gift for a coworker and is made from some mahogany scraps I glued up. The shape is pretty simple, rectangular with rounded ends and splayed slightly top to bottom. This gave me a good canvas to go circle carving, with only the ends being a bit of a challenge depth wise. The carving is from Michael Cullen's inspiration of raindrops in a puddle... his creativity and carving skills are incredible. I painted the box first using milk paint ( 3 coats) and then did my layout and carved through the paint. This was a suggestion that Brit (Andy) had made commenting on one of my prior projects. Adding depth through color this way worked really well and a technique I'll use again in the future.... thanks Andy!
I had left the top plain to offset the busyness of the carving...but it needed something so I went with a brown leather handle I found on Etsy. Let me know what you all think!
