Billiard Ball Boxes

I haven't posted here in a while so I thought I'd show you what I've been up to lately, besides getting into trouble. I got this wild hair the other day (well maybe a couple of months ago) to make snap-lid style boxes from billiard balls. I bought several sets off of eBay for cheap. They are regulation 2.25" dia. balls made from phenolic resin. This stuff is hard on your tools. I was constantly sharpening. I used a cup chuck to hold the ball while hollowing. The 5 ball has a black acrylic finial, the 8 ball has a holly finial and the 10 ball has an African Blackwood finial.

Thanks to Jeff Lavine for his great tutorial for making snap-lid boxes. The article was in the winter 2005 edition of Woodturning Design.

As usual, all comments welcome.

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paulporter

Registered: July 2005
Location: Phoenix, AZ
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Date: Sat January 27, 2007
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Comments

JimQuarles

Cool! Neat idea. I'll see you in 2 weeks at DWR.

#1 Sat January 27, 2007 5:41am

Larry Charlot

The Ideas you come up with, wow way to think outside the box

#2 Sat January 27, 2007 7:00am

Twigs

Paul they look great. Really nice work.

#3 Sat January 27, 2007 9:07am

cfuller

Amazing! What a great idea.

#4 Sat January 27, 2007 3:59pm

TomTunget

Tom Tunget

I had the fortune to see these in person at our AWA meeting. Very nicely done Paul.

#5 Sat January 27, 2007 5:09pm

turnenman

VERY VERY nice Paul!!!

#6 Sun January 28, 2007 5:08am

JTTHECLOCKMAN

I love them. Great idea. Can you give a little background as to how you did them??? How much did you cut off the top and how did you cut it??? How thin did you hollow it??? It looks like there is a lip on the top so you must have altered the size and if so how much??? What did you use to polish them again???

#7 Sun January 28, 2007 6:12pm