as some of you know Ive been putzing around in my woodshop with some cool pieces of wood.
Fly boxes are my focus and experimentation is my MO. Not always an ideal scenario when one has a limited supply of desirable wood!
The first fly box was very rudimentary. a block of wood hogged out on a router table creating a "clamshell effect"
Here is the box I posted last week. If you didnt see it, its solid Myrtle wood.
I started producing this style of fly box with varying success. This is a larger "clouser box". i blew part of it out on the router and reinforced one side with some hard maple. It actually gave it a a nice effect! Also, check out the nice spalting in the grain!
This time I was more careful and patient and produced a VERY nice box that Im quite happy with. This one is clean enough to market if I chose. Its the inside of the box that makes the first two marginal, however absolutely usable.
Getting a little more creative. this one is walnut with a maple burl feature. I wanted to inlay the burl but theres just not enough wood left to carve out. Also this one hs maple corner splines.
This is where things start getting exciting! If youre not into wood, sorry and good night
I fondled this other piece of myrtle burl trying to visualize what to do with it. I couldnt do the same thing because this piece was 1 1/4" thick (doubled that would be a 2 1/2" thick fly box). So I filleted it to 3/16". I used it as a veneer show piece and framed it with another nice hardwood. In this case, black walnut. hmmmmm. I think I like this!
Running out of my original plank of Myrtle wood, I did the same thing with it. Framing it this time with hard maple. This box is extremely tight, clean and beautiful. I think this may be my "devine design" going forward.
Its hard to see in the picture, but this one will not have a magnetic closure. but rather what I call a "snug lip". Its a tongue and groove effect that makes it firmly slip closed and stay closed.
Heres the inside.
Heres the family all together.
This design can incorperate exotic veneer. Which is highly available online with amazing figured grains.
Anyone still awake???
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