Beautiful Hand-Crafted Boxes
by
Wally Becker
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Box designed for the bronze handled knife in the picture to the right. The carved box lid and handle are the same pattern. |
Bronze handle folder by David Broadwell with the open box seen on the left. |
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This is Wally's personal knife. It's a Kershaw/Ken Onion speed safe and he put bronze and abalone inlays in the handle. |
Damascus letter opener, boxes carved out of purple hear wood to look like cloth. The tossels are carved from a single piece of 1/5" bronze rod. The lid is aligned and held on by rear earth magnets. |
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Flag knife storage box, made from 7 3/4" cherry boards glued together, then carved. |
This is the same box as the one on the right, with open drawers. The box pivots on its base. |
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Damascus knife blade and construction by David Broadwell in a collaborative project with the display box to the right. The bronze bolster is carved by Wally Becker. |
The box was designed to match the style and graceful lines of the knife to the left. The top is carved walrus ivory. |
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Another collaborative project with David Broadwell. The box for the folder pictured to the right has a similar shape and design. |
A Broadwell all damascus folder inside the same box pictured to the left. |
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This is a commission project done for a pen and knife collector. Two drawers are divided for pens and the rest for knives. |
This is the same box with closed drawers and doors. It is made of cherry wood, stained in two tones, with extruded solid brass hardware. |
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This is a jewelry box done on commission. The doors are carved like beveled glass French doors with tie-back drapes. The scene that is on the front of the drawers is also seen in the glass of the doors. It is made of cherry wood. |
Outside of same box to the left. |
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This box is made of "Lace wood" with mother of pearl in-lay. The bi-fold top has 6 trays that hold 5 pens each. Thirty pens total can be stored. Or the 3 tray can be used and the other half of the box left for pen-related things. The small humidor can also be used in that place (it's made of cedar.) This box is available for $2200. |
Another View of the box to the left with the beautifully carved and inlaid top. This box is available for $2200.
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This is yet another commission piece made to store 7 pens. It is made of maple burl (the light color) and has zircote base and a hand-carved top. |
This is the box to the right, open. |
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This and the one above it are the same box - a presentation box for a Broadwell pen. The top is circation walnut burl that is hand-carved with an inlay of the pen material. The bottom is painted satin black . |
Here is another presentation box for a Broadwell pen. It's made of cherry wood, painted with black lacquer and hand-polished. It has a set out tray. |
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Here is yet another box for Broadwell with a hand carved spalted curly maple lid with an inlay of the pen material. This base is also painted satin black |
This display box is made of curly kola wood. (top view) The part with the red is a drawer that slides into the edge of it. To open it, you push on one of the bronze inlays in the top. The drawer is spring loaded so when opened the drawer pops out. |
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Here is a Bexley pen box made for the prototype pen for the "Kensaki" series. It's a trick box because you can't see how to open it when it's closed. |
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This is one of Du-Dad boxes (not meant for anything in particular)It is carved from lacewood with a black bottom. |
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Here is another presentation box for David Broadwell. The lid is hand-carved redwood burl with inlay of the pen material. The base is painted satin black. |
This is a photo of several of Wally's "Du-Dad" boxes |
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These are letter openers. The two with black handles are made of ebony, one with a damascus blade, and the other is bronze. The blue is a knife handle material. |
Two of the letter openers from the picture to the left.
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