Burr Elm Jewellery Box
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Peter Lloyd, working from his small workshop in Cumbria UK, searches out unusual and beautiful English hardwoods to create jewellery boxes, ring boxes, work boxes, writing slopes or special commissions; a box to hold a treasured heirloom, a christening box, a chess set, a presentation piece, or a very individual corporate gift.
Whether it be a desk box made of oak from HMS Victory, a jewelry chest, a little jewel of a ring box or stationery box of burr elm, each of these handmade wooden boxes is a celebration of its wood.
1 June '10
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Well, it's the first of June and it's raining! Never mind, everything is looking very green and beautiful and the sun has shown its face once or twice!
We've just had a holiday on the Knoydart peninsula in Scotland which was absolutely stunning so getting back into work mode isn't easy!
I've had a disappointing couple of days trying to make some ring boxes. Anything that could go wrong did and most of them have ended up on the scrap wood pile. That's what working with wood is like though - it doesn't always behave the way you expect it to and this particular batch just wasn't up to scratch. Box making isn't always as straightforward as it might appear and a lot of blood, sweat and tears go into each box. Chris says that I am far too much a perfectionist and she often can't even see the thing that is driving me mad.
I've got some exciting jewellery box commissions on the go at the moment which should keep the brain cells sparking. There has been quite a lot of interest from the U.S.A. recently and a couple of these new boxes will be going over to America