Thanks for the compliments, Mike. However, I have to disappoint you. This all sort of happened as I went along and let my intuition guide me. I had a piece of lime left over from another job and decided in the spur of the moment to make a small box from it. Once I had rough turned the body, I started scouting around for something nice for the lid and settled on a piece of curly olive ash. While turning the lid, I thought it would be a nice idea to have something on the lid, so took another cutoff from the same ash and shaped the crest. Once this was coloured, I looked at it and thought: that's a bit heavy with that dark red on the top, so better make a stand for this. So the bottom of the body got rounded over, a ring was cut (again from the same ash) and then I made the three little feet from rippled sycamore because I'd run out of suitable cutoffs of ash. A series of most fortunate events, if you will.