I don’t post photos of my veneered boxes these days figuring you’ve seen enough!
However, I can’t make my mind up whether this one is any good from a design perspective. I was given a decent sized oak beam that had its origins in a Cambridgeshire country house. It then sat in a shed for 20 plus years until being passed on to me to do something with.
As with many of these things the external surface was fairly knarly and a bit of a mess. The original thinking was just to cut off the dross and send it to the log burner but for me there’s something really quite tactile about the patina of these old chunks of wood and I had the idea of preserving it in a box.
So I sliced off one of the sides and got to work. Now it’s really a bit ‘punky’ and soft so I put a coat of wood hardener on some and whilst it did its job and hardened the wood it went almost black, far to dark for my liking. I therefore persevered with the softer stuff but it wasn’t actually too bad to deal with.
Anyhow, the final product pictured finished with a couple of coats of polyvine acrylic which has helped stabilise the wood a bit. The box is entirely made fromthe beam and I quite like the old and new aspect but not really sure it ‘works’ as a piece.
Appreciate any comments, positive or negative.
However, I can’t make my mind up whether this one is any good from a design perspective. I was given a decent sized oak beam that had its origins in a Cambridgeshire country house. It then sat in a shed for 20 plus years until being passed on to me to do something with.
As with many of these things the external surface was fairly knarly and a bit of a mess. The original thinking was just to cut off the dross and send it to the log burner but for me there’s something really quite tactile about the patina of these old chunks of wood and I had the idea of preserving it in a box.
So I sliced off one of the sides and got to work. Now it’s really a bit ‘punky’ and soft so I put a coat of wood hardener on some and whilst it did its job and hardened the wood it went almost black, far to dark for my liking. I therefore persevered with the softer stuff but it wasn’t actually too bad to deal with.
Anyhow, the final product pictured finished with a couple of coats of polyvine acrylic which has helped stabilise the wood a bit. The box is entirely made fromthe beam and I quite like the old and new aspect but not really sure it ‘works’ as a piece.
Appreciate any comments, positive or negative.
