Made a new project - Not sure how to finish it

[evansd2]

First of all, nice design, but especially that planchette is outstanding.

I’m a big fan of wipe-on clear satin polyurethane.

It is very forgiving, very tough, and will bring out the colors like you’re hoping.

Here you go, a project in walnut and padauk finished with satin poly.

Honeycomb tray

Hello, I am the keeper of the comb. You may look but not touch. [IMG_0844] Figured maple, Figured Walnut, Padauk, Cowhide My exploration of trays is apparently not complete yet. This time, instead of an abstract geometric theme of spirals I decided to ground the design in more natural forms, specifically honeycomb. I don’t have a lot of process details to share that I haven’t already in my other tray posts, you can search the forum for them if you want to dig deeper into how I do this sor…

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Morphing hex star box

Greetings, my name is Wala, you know me already. [IMG_2518] I am continuing my exploration of small magnet boxes with heavily sanded edges. This time, I wanted to get away from spirals and head to something more organic. Note, more organic, I was going for something curvy but still geometric. I landed on this design. This post will be a bit light on technical details, you can get more of that in my other posts. Notes: All woods 1/8" hardwood Overall height 1.25" (ten layers) Diameter a…

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Layered Hexagonal twist box

Hi, I’m Chance. [IMG_2143] I wanted to make something a bit more finished to celebrate the return of my Glowforge, here’s an idea I’d had kicking around for a while. I wanted to make a layered, magnetically-sealed dice box, but I wanted to stay away from a few things I’d seen in other people’s designs. Specifically, I wanted to avoid the look of bare layers, and I felt like all other hex boxes I’d seen made were unnecessarily difficult to open because of the way you have to pull the magnets …

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