Chip carved basswood trinket box - the stained glass artwork from
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. Once again I carved the box into a book shape
at first and then chip carved the intricate game artwork depicting Link and Zelda.
The chip carving part was tougher than I expected and it took me about 11 hours, so the work on this one box was something between 15-17 hours in total. It is finished with light brown gel stain and has a satin lining inside.
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Work in progress.
The original picture was firstly redrawn onto the tracing paper and then traced on the box:
Carving of the borders was surely the most annoying part but the result is very satisfying:
The box finished with few coats of polyurethane:
And the gel stain application:
