Boxwood box with Black Walnut flower
This is my latest ornamental turning. A shallow slightly spalted Boxwood box 80mm in diameter and 50mm tall. The box was conventionally turned and then decorated on my Rose Engine lathe. The basket weave pattern was made using a 24W rosette with a 4mm slotting cutter in a drilling frame. The lid has separately turned a 40mm diameter Black Walnut flower cut using a Lotus 8 rosette using a 1 mm end mill in a drilling frame for the outer shape and then a universal cutting frame and fly cutter to carve the pattern into the top face. The underside of the lid is decorated with an Arch 5 rosette using a drilling frame and a 1.2mm end mill, the pattern is phased to get the alternating pattern, and has a white CZ stone in the centre. Finished with 3 coats of spray gloss lacquer.