Still Images You are here: Home / Resources / Still Images Resources > Still Images > Images of Artefacts > Incense boat and spoon Applewood blank mounted on lathe for rounding off (Photo: Phil Neal) Design drawn out on rounded blank (Photo: Phil Neal)Half round scraper used to create basic profile proportions (Photo: Phil Neal)Blank removed from lathe to enable mounting in chuck (Photo: Phil Neal)Mounted in the chuck with the tailstock now redundant (Photo: Phil Neal)Now in chuck, the boat takes shape (Photo: Phil Neal)Weight removed from bowl end before cutting into waist (Photo: Phil Neal) Proportions finalised (Photo: Phil Neal)Base defined and body sanded (Photo: Phil Neal)Bowl cut to depth (Photo: Phil Neal)Pearwood blank mounted between centres (Photo: Phil Neal)Reduced to ¼” diameter for lid hinge (Photo: Phil Neal) Pearwood hinge attached to prepared oak lid parts (Photo: Phil Neal) Detail of hinge and lid with brass pin removed (Photo: Phil Neal)Oak lid predrilled to allow pinning to bowl (Photo: Phil Neal)Pearwood knob being finished in chuck (Photo: Phil Neal)Knob primed and sanded (Photo: Phil Neal)Completed boat primed and sanded but still held in chuck (Photo: Phil Neal)Undercoat applied and rubbed down (Photo: Phil Neal)View into boat showing bare applewood (Photo: Phil Neal)Completed boat with lid joined and hinged (Photo: Phil Neal)Knob still attached to its blank for support whilst gilding (Photo: Phil Neal)Knob in place on gilded lid (Photo: Phil Neal)Spoon turned from pearwood and gilded, with hand carved bowl (Phil Neal)Gilded and varnished (open) (Photo: Sally Harper)Loading the censer before the Procession of the Holy Name, September 2011 (Photo: Andy Brice)