re: micro woodworking

No microscope, although I do have a nice one now. I took the photos with an external macro lens attached to my iPhone 3. This arrangement did much better than the macro mode on our digital camera.

I made the first one on a watchmaker’s lathe the smaller one I did on my Jet midi lathe. I had wanted to do it on my Shopsmith to counter those who believe they can’t be used when precision is desired but didn’t have a collet arrangement yet.

I still have the larger box but while showing the smaller one I managed to drop the lid and accidentally crushed the body of the box.
Making the parts isn’t all that difficult, handling them is. Takes a light touch, pointy tweezers, and no breeze.