Mark Gungor

I find the idea of my head
being filled with boxes
paradoxically
stimulating.

The truth is out there.

I'm all about getting in
to that empty box.

No box left unfilled.

Well, we try anyway.

My latest obsession is a box, around 9"x14", dove tailed sides with jointed top and bottom, 3 different dove tailed trays that fit inside and a collet tray.
I made an automatic silver and ivory spring loaded latch that keeps it closed.
So far, I put around 100 hours of work into it and still can't get it out of my one box brain. It holds doo dads for my watch lathe.

Photo, please.

I can't find my usb thing for my camera, but I'll post it later.

Just the pieces,
when I saw them
all raw and scattered
looked quite nice.

Spend long enough in Florida you get used to seeing pieces all raw and scattered.

Spend too long and you think they look quite nice.

I'm outtah here...

You just got back.

Which made me realize...

...I'm outtah here.

At least mentally.

It's much easier to
live here w/out
having to work and
interact w/the locals.

I'm more of a semi-
permanent tourist now.

I'm a short drive away, come on up, I need someone to yack attack.

Boxes

Inside a box

Surrounded by boxes

With an Ivory latch.
The green stuff around the tiger eye knob is a wax model for a silver bezel (made it on my lathe)

Almost done

I salvaged the side handles from a rusty 19th century cash box.

Here's my lathe on an average day (today)

Most of the collets are 100 plus years old, I've been collecting them for 25 years, I'm missing one, gives me reason to wake up every day. It takes over 80 collets to cover the sizes one tenth to eight millimeters, in tenth and half tenth sizes. Good collets are ground and polished to zero tolerance after hardening and tempering rather than before. The collets are held in the lathe head or tail stock, they clamp down on round (or other) stock for turning

Ohh

That's big
and beautiful, innit?

Lid snaps shut like a Rolls Royce door, I made the mechanism from an old typewriter wire that I took apart for pressing. The Ivory is bulged out 3 dimensional like but you can't really see it.

Damn.

Looks a lil' diffy
now.

Beautiful!


Master model makers porn

Superb!
I love the latch.
And the handles look perfectly incrusted in the box sides.

Excellent work of Art, Kirkenstein and so practical!

Art and practical?

Like Crocs xoes?

Kirk.

I like your box!

Very nice Kirk.

Ever given any thought about making a humidor?

You dry?

I have a thing for boxes.
I love a good box.
I hoard them.

Box porn beats vinyl porn every time.

Especially ones with nicely looking dovetail joints?

Can't beat
bareback.

Socky, with yr help I'm managing
to keep it down to moist.

Sorry, not down yet.
Nor done.

Yup,
I'm wet.

Kirk, it looks so tactile,
cd I caress yr box?

Those are a plus, Six.
Boxes inside of boxes, though, oh my!
That appeals mightily to the anal retentive in me.

You'd think this office
would be tidier.

Yeah, but I don't smoke cigars and I don't really speculate on what would sell, you want one?
100 + hours of labor is a little steep for a fancy TupperWare.
It's a little steep for a tool box too, but what the hell, obsession is a terrible thing.