What is it Part4 supplimentary

Two more impressions of What is it 4 to make it very easy.

What is it - more

What is it - another view


I’ll show this in its full glory in the next post.

6 comments March 26th, 2009

What is it Part 4

Sorry about the long absence. Glad that my friends banded together and kept the internet going while I was quiet. Here’s a new “what is it?” for you.

What is it?


An easy one again I suspect. Soon as you guess it I’ll post the related article.

4 comments March 24th, 2009

The blues

1 comment March 1st, 2009

What is it Part 3

Here’s another for you to guess.

What is it?


This one is very common. Probably occurs everywhere in the world.

And the answer is…
(more…)

4 comments February 19th, 2009

Curly’s Sacred Heart

The Village Carpenter has a recent post describing a 19thC grease box. The object is a small carved box with a swivel lid. The inside is carved out to hold a supply of grease. This reminded me of a wonderful piece by Matthew Harding.

Curly's Sacred Heart (mum's pill box) by Matthew Harding

This is carved in the form of a human heart from a wood called purpleheart. It functions as a container for his mother’s heart pills. It also uses a swivel lid as shown below.

Made in purpleheart. The top swivels to open the container.

The piece was first exhibited in 1996 in a group exhibition called The box as container curated by George Ingham.

I created an online version of the exhibition way back then. It is a part of my old web site that I haven’t migrated but you can still view it here. Some of the external links may now be broken.

There are some very good pieces hidden in there. I will attempt to highlight a few in future posts. Three reviews of the exhibition are included. All are interesting but I highly recommend reading Michael Gill’s review. Woodworkers especially will find it entertaining.

6 comments February 1st, 2009

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