It is how the work is finished and presented in my opinion, not the difficulty of the work, that makes it worth bragging about, and this scores high on both counts
Thank you all ladies and gents for your lovely comments, I promise I will be trying more things than inlaid boxes, but at the moment I'm just amazed a ham fisted ex collier like me can make something so delicate, I'm like a school child showing their parents the work they've done, I take them up from the shed to show the wife at every stag of the work
The Butterfly box is a birthday present for the Mother-In Law, I'm quite pleased how these both turned out
The boxes are Mahogany and the inlay thanks to the recommendations from you folks is Maple
Sorry Joe, I saw this yesterday and I thought I'd commented on it then, great bit of work, I've been and downloaded the pattern, as the wife saw it and wants one for our caravan at the coast, "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"
I did this cut because I thought the wood choice was ideal for a tabby cat, it is from an old Indian Rosewood coffee table I got from Shpock for a tenner, the pattern once again Steve Good, I thought the poor joint would sand out, I was wrong