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After finishing Rocky, my next major project was this steamer trunk. The construction is floating panels and everything is
solid wood - mostly cherry. The "leather" trim is walnut. The tray inside slides on wooden rails and uses dovetail
joinery.
The "toyshop" name comes from items like these acrobats. The pattern comes from a "Folk Toy" book. I've made and sold
more than five dozen of these. Just squeeze the handles gently and the acrobat flips and flops around the bar. If you're interested,
take a look at the toy gallery for better photos. The price for one of these is $4 to $6, depending on finishing.
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I saw something similar to this on one of my surfing lunches. When I saw this chunk of beech (with the river running
through it), I had to add the fish. The bear and fish are walnut. The construction method was to cut out the inserts (fish
and bear) and use them as patterns on the beech. They fit together pretty well, so when the glue dried, I turned the plate.
It's about 7 inch diameter and an 1/8 inch thick.
This music box plays "Over the Rainbow" as it rotates slowly. The box and platform are made of butternut, and the
figures are from various woods. The Egrets (big white birds) are buckeye, and the smaller ducks are from yellowheart and
zebrawood. The cattails are mahogany and the different grasses are whatever I could find lying around. The scrolling was
done with a 3-D technique for all the small figures in "the wetlands."
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