Keepsake boxes

 Jewelry box

Made this jewelry box for the wife with mahogany achitraving thrown away bu one of our neighbours. Added the photo of the grandkids to finish it off.

Keepsake box

Made this one for myself out of left over mahogany and softwood.

This is a prototype of a Royal Engineers themed etched copper clad board in a photo frame with flashing LED back lights.


WARNING: ********** FLASHING LIGHTS **********

I can't load the video here so click on the link below to watch on youtube.

Etched copper clad board with flashing LED back lights.  

http://youtu.be/uYMo02yTZpY

This was the first time I attempted to etch a brass plate from a (real) photo. I first converted the photo to "pencil drawing" in an Android app on my mobile phone and then cleaned it up in photoshop. 

I think it turned out pretty good and I am quite happy with the end result.

Some more of my creations.

I have now stopped using the "toner transfer" method and am using Negative Dry Film Photoresist instead, gives much better and cleaner results.

This is my latest creation, a brass clock with RE cap badge.

House number plate for a fellow Sapper brother. 

 This one was made for another fellow Sapper brother.

And a wooden plaque, something different than brass or copper etching.

Copper clad board etching.

This is something I have wanted to try for a long time but could never get right.

I have now "mastered" transferring toner from a lazer printer on to copper to produce these military insignias.

The line artwork for the RE Badge was done for me by a friend, Jamie Munro-Naan, thank you Jamie, really appreciate it. 

Some more badges that I made.

31 AES Desktop Wallpaper.

My key ring.

Corps Of Royal Engineers Desktop Wallpaper.

Once A Sapper Always A Veteran. 

"I did my time", a little poem I wrote for the "older" generation of soldiers.

I DID MY TIME.

I did my time, took the shilling,

When I was able and willing.

I did as told, finished the job,

Became a sapper, not a yob.

Many great friends I made, shot a rifle,

Marched around the square, on the double.

I blew up things, drove a tank,

My ambition fulfilled, not blank.

I did all that and much more,

Even in snow and downpour.

My time passed, no longer able,

Sit in the kitchen, at the table.

Drinking tea, eating toast,

For the grandchildren, playing host.

I did my time, took the shilling,

When I was able and willing. 

By Tanky Turk