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Darryn Achall

Spalted Box

close up of the stone lid pull cut and polished from a rock found on a local beach
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Darryn:
I really like the stones you have cut/polished and used as handles on your small boxes. I have been toying with a similar idea using small beach rocks from the North side of Lake Erie (with fossils). How are you attaching the lid pulls? I should add the boxes are very well done as well. Thank you for sharing these.

Barry W. Larson
Calgary, Alberta, Canada (currently in S. Ontario) eh!
 
Darryn Achall
I drill holes into the bottom of the rock with a diamond bit on a foredom tool. Cut a small finish nail to length. Epoxy the finish nail into the rock with the pointy end out. Predrill a hole in the wood box top slightly smaller than the nail diameter and push the finish nail in.
 

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