{"id":5768,"date":"2019-03-10T13:08:07","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T16:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/?p=5768"},"modified":"2023-04-17T14:30:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T17:30:22","slug":"fine-details-shaping-the-snakewood-legs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/archives\/5768","title":{"rendered":"Fine Details &#8211; Shaping the Snakewood Legs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ekennard-190219-9951-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Smoothing the tops of the legs - Image Ellie Kennard 2019\" class=\"wp-image-5769\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ekennard-190219-9951.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ekennard-190219-9951-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ekennard-190219-9951-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ekennard-190219-9951-690x460.jpg 690w, https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ekennard-190219-9951-980x654.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I was commissioned to remake my &#8220;Hat in a Box&#8221; as the original is in my own collection and not for sale. It was originally made it 2004 and this revisiting of the process was interesting as I had to work out again how to make it. Here Ellie took a photo of me shaping the tops of the legs in the final stages. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below you see the photograph of the finished box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/skgallery\/turned-art\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/skennard-120417_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/skennard-120417_.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/skennard-120417_-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/skennard-120417_-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/skennard-120417_-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/skennard-120417_-350x350.jpg 350w, https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/skennard-120417_-90x90.jpg 90w, https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/skennard-120417_-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/skennard-120417_-690x690.jpg 690w, https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/skennard-120417_-980x980.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">&#8220;Hat in a Box&#8221; African blackwood, snakewood, stainless steel. This box was included in a &#8220;Boxes and their Makers&#8221; tour of museums in the USA and is a featured box  in the book New Masters of the Wooden Box.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ellie made a post about her photograph which you can find here:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elliekennard.ca\/fine-detail\/\">https:\/\/www.elliekennard.ca\/fine-detail\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was commissioned to remake my &#8220;Hat in a Box&#8221; as the original is in my own collection and not for sale. It was originally made it 2004 and this revisiting of the process was interesting as I had to work out again how to make it. 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