You see the whole process, from concept to cutting the blanks from a single block of Tasmanian blackwood through to the finished box. You see how I develop and refine shapes, and then in the last five minutes of the video see how the following morning I decided to reshape the lid, risking the whole project. There are good views of using a spindle gouge to shear scrape and using a roughed bowl as a chuck to refine the base.
As I rough out the lid you see the gouge suddenly lose its edge as it hits the remains of a mud wasp’s nest.