Bondi Bond Waitlist: paskmakes.com/bondi-bond-waitlist/ This was a super fun project but I always enjoy this sort of thing. Thanks to whoever it was that pointed me towards Persian marquetry, it was in a comment a few years ago but have no idea from which video. Anyway it stuck in mind ever since, I just needed to get around to it. :)

I think you must be one of the most patient people on the entire planet and I really admire your work.

Hello Mr. Pask, my dad is from Iran and we have several khatam kari pieces in our home. I wanted to say you did a great job for your very first time, and you are probably one of the first people outside of Iran to make a video on making it. Thank you for introducing this art form to a wider audience!

Neil; " You do need patience ". Understatement of the century ! LOL!

I thought Kumiko was a skill to try the patience of a saint, but you have gone to another level with this one! I salute you!

Happy Birthday, Jess. Beautiful work, Dad. I absolutely would not have the patience for that but it was fun watching you work.

Neil you are an absolute madman - and I mean that in the most impressive and complimentary way possible. I have no idea where you find the patience to do some of these projects, but I'm incredibly glad you do!

Since subscribing to Pask, I've found a bunch of other makers whose work I love and admire - Not an Engineer, Inheritance Machining, Blacktail Workshop, to name a few. They're all fantastic and a pleasure to watch, but Pask is still the king. Beautiful work as always!!!

Always happy to watch Neil do an incredibly tedious project I would never have the patience to do myself. 😂

"Hopefully you enjoyed the video" is being down to earth. Loved it! And my grandpa used to say "you don't need patience when you love what you are doing"

Pask is the name, patience is the game!

Of course, Jess loves it. She can feel the love you put into it, Neil. What a lovely little box and what wonderful patterns. I agree with the tiny movement of the triangles. If they were 'perfect' it would look like machine mass production. The talent, patience, and creativity you share with us all are enjoyable to watch. Thanks for sharing such beauty with us all.

Hi Neil! I am from Russia, 65 years old, I use many of your ideas in my work. thanks for the motivation.

There is patience and then the Pask Makes level of patience, just astounding ... just when you think your work can't get any better, you just go and prove us wrong ... a true master at work 👍

Don't worry, we like the wonky triangles too. Makes it look more handmade. Beautiful. Jess is one lucky girl!

I loved the phraseology when you said "lurking voids". I will adopt. Great project.

A guy could build a full set of dining room furniture by the time it took him to make that small keepsake box. Awesome job brother, you've got conviction and then some. I can more that appreciate the difficulty and time gone into making this one-of precious gift, Happy Birthday Jessie. A while ago I was commissioned to make a jewelry box to look like an ornate blanket chest with inlays , when I gave the customer an estimate, I was told to my face that my price to make it was out to lunch. The customer had no idea regarding the amount of labor that would go into it, she figured because the box was so much smaller than the chest it had to be a lot cheaper. Long story short, she went elsewhere and the price was almost doubled as what I quoted, she came back to me, agreed on my price ...I told her I was too busy and was no longer interested in taking it on..

Dear Neil, couple of points: 1. you saying "it's been a fun project" often, is why you are so loved - because everything you do you enjoy. It shows and it affects us 2. Happy birthday, Jess and have a beautiful time with your awesome father and your family 3. guessing what you might use the pattern for - I can imagine you doing an inlay of tool handles 4. The fiddly work pays off, the result is amazing. Very detailed and almost mind bending 5. regardless of anything else, Neil, thank you for sharing your world with us. It is really healing to know that some people are actually contributing beauty and not only darkness and destruction. Be well, sir and thank you! One more thing I wanted to say. I've always enjoyed your videos for the process and creativity, the result and your humanity, but recently you have really upped your videography. The footage and editing itself is amazing. I can tell you spent a lot of time on the production. You are amazing and the video looks very nice. Thank you for that too!

Happy birthday to Jess! The box is a lovely present 🎉

Incredible work. Your patience with projects like this is astonishing! Happy birthday, Jess!

This is gorgeous work, absolutely incredible how much time and attention to detail was needed. I hope your daughter cherishes it for many years to come, what a wonderful gift.

Amazing artwork, skill, and patience ! Thanks for the video!

Your camerawork and editing are amazing. Your attention to detail in your designwork, preparation and assembly are off the charts!

This video is sooooooo well done. Your craftsmanship is fantastic. I'm also really impressed with the cinematography of the video. If you are responsible for both aspects, truly you are a talented person.

I am most impressed with your patience for this build. I would never have that much patience.

Those sandwiches are much more robust that I expected!

That is so sweet. Not only is the pattern a gorgeous testament to research, trial, and patience; but the fact you gave the first piece you were happy with to your daughter! My heart is now a puddle

Wow. Neil, you outdid yourself! It looks so pretty! Don't care what you use it on next, I'll be watching! Congratulations to your daughter!

Happy Birthday Jess - If you're Dad is this cool now, imagine how cool a Grandad he'll be for your own kids in 15-20 years time! 🙂

You are the best woodworker on KZfaq. I look forward to seeing your videos! Thanks again for sharing your work!

It might be odd to say, but watching you work just made my brain feel good.

Just found this channel, and this is really neat. My wife has several boxes with this kind of pattern on them that her father brought from Syria when he came to the states in the '60s. Some of the patterns have started to fall off, and I've been wanting to repair them. I'll definitely come back here when uf I find time to work on them.

Wow! The patterns came out wonderfully, and I'm sure your daughter treasures her birthday box.

Although not the 400-800 PSI of antique Khatam I am truly amazed you took this on at all, must be the most amazing youtube woodworking video I've ever seen. Well done to you Sir, my hat comes off to you.

I love the pattern, and I think the wonkyness of the triangles somehow makes it look better. Well done!

Neil, your patience is absolutely inhuman. I hope your daughter had a wonderful birthday fitting of such a wonderful gift.

I cannot believe your patience. Sending love from eastern North Carolina :)

I will come back to this one day when I've finally mastered that 'patience' you've been talking about. (great work btw)

Isn’t a drum sander so nice to have. I purchased a used one and now I couldn’t live without it. 👍

Strewth, you really must have the patience of a saint. Your projects are getting more and more time consuming.

Hard to find any birthday gift to top this one! 🎉

If you do this again, using metal, you should take a look at draw plates with triangular holes. It’d be much easier to form metal triangular sections from wire than cutting it down and hammering it into shape. Love your content!!

obviously the project is beautiful and your technique is very good but what never ceases to amaze me is your patience. Truly admirable!

Terrific little box Neil and a great gift for your daughter! Well done! 👍👍

Humidore, Jewellery Box, Pencil Case, Spice Rack Base - just an idea or two as you asked for!

Neil my friend, you never cease to impress and amaze. Even though it's "just a small box" made from a gazillion tiny pieces of wood, it's something far more valuable than any gift you could have bought for your daughter. It not only contains a gazillion tiny pieces of wood, it contains a substantial piece of you...I'm sure she will cherish it for the rest of her life, thanks for sharing sir...

Beautifully done. Suggestion for your next project: how about a backgammon set? These intricate patterns are traditionally used in making some amazing backgammon boards.

Wonderful work and great planning, filming, and editing of video and narration. Thank you for your work and for the beautiful wood work results! It means so much to the same care and concern for performing every step of your projects, as you use in creating your video to share the wonder and joy of woodwork! You're bound for great success in enhancing peoples' lives!!

This project is amazing and beautiful (like all the rest of your projects, Neil). But I also have to say, your use of creative shots in making these videos has gotten really good. That time lapse tracking shot around 5:10 is *chef’s kiss*.

why am I here? why am I glued to the screen? Awesome!

You have the patience of a saint! Beautiful work.

Happy birthday Jess, and as a wild guess for the next project a stand up paddle board with that patterning to go with the kayak on the wall. A fantastic job and thanks for sharing.

KZfaq suggested this video, so glad it did. Amazing and beautiful work sir!

There are a lot of channels that more or less do the same project. What I love about your channel is I am always seeing something unique and learning something useful.

Looks great. And now you need to make another canoe from little triangles! lol You, and the Epic Upcycling guy, have way more patience than the rest of us.

Great great work! The imperfections are what make projects like this unique and amazing. Almost like proof it's hand made. Thanks for sharing as I know a project like this is an adventure!

Stunning product! Ideas: Jewelry. Many of us ( mostly ladies, but not only) will pay waay to much for beautiful, hand crafted pieces ❤ Multiple largish medallions in a necklace, bracelet, earrings, rings… nb: watching your skills with the tools you have makes me appreciate the traditional handicrafters even more. You honor them!

You, Sir, have the patience of a saint!! Always a pleasure to watch your videos.

what a beautiful gift for someone you love

I'd get thrown in jail from an outburst of violent rage trying to create that! Very well done

Neil, your work is always a pleasure to watch and I immensely enjoy watching your videos. Thank you for sharing your craft and your journey!

you and Torbjorn are the only KZfaq channels I alerts set for!

Pask you have god-level patience.

Awesome project. I really like the "wonkyness", it definitely looks handmade thst way. I really have mad respect for the Japanese, who do that with the most simple tools and then shave it paper thin.

You work with such care and imagination. It’s no surprise the things you make are so fine. Proceed, sir!

Patterned boxes like this are the sort of thing we see while on holiday in foreign places, and we marvel at them - without any knowledge of how they are made. There are any number of retired people around the country who might like to give this a go. I, for one, feel quite inspired by seeing this - you may be an inspiration to many more who will get pleasure out of doing this, or some close variation on the idea. The finished product is beautiful - and as you say, the slight imperfection adds to the appeal by showing the hand-made nature of the piece. Gorgeous!

Outstanding work. The Dental Floss was brilliant. Lovely camera work, by the way! I know how difficult that is to do. Totally made my day!! Cheers!!

Amazing patience and perseverance. And I love the way you speeded up the video to spare us the tedium. So many cooking videos show all the cutting up of every vegetable.... Great job.

Peeling dried glue off your hands... 😊 I wonder how many people smiled in acknowledgement like I did. Love the diversity of your projects. This was really beautiful.

That's really fantastic. And a happy birthday to your daughter! I can't imagine how much work went into that, with all those billions of little pieces. I'm sure your girl really appreciates all the hard work you put into her present.

That project would drive me completely insane. Turned out great.

Fantastic skill and patience, your Daughter couldn't have received a better birthday gift. Hand made is always well loved. Thanks for sharing.

Superb, a fun project for anyone with the patience, I have neither a bandsaw nor a table saw but I think with some imaginative jig making I may have a go at this or something very similar. Thanks for the inspiration, it is always a pleasure to see you work.

There's always something interesting on the Pask Makes channel. Great video!

Gorgeous work! I'm glad she loved it!

The file could be one used blacksmith to prepare the hoof of the horses. And happy birthday to your daughter.

So impressive, the enormous effort you put in to your projects, I bow to you Sir!

Extremely intricate! Great Job.

I am impressed with your patience! Amazing results.

Absolutely stunning neil. With a project like this one, patience is definitely a virtue mate. Wonderful project and a great great video.

Judging from most Arabic crafts, they certainly are very, very VERY patient and determined people. I suppose making things this delicate and repetitive in nature serves as a form of meditation. To imagine these big pieces,done with hand tools...Incredibly impressive stuff. Beautiful work, Sir, this scale really does test one's skill.

These repeating pattern projects tickle my autism in the loveliest ways.

Just amazing how you dive right into a new challenge and produce something gorgeous on the first try

I love this project! So cool. Looks fantastic. I like the little bit of irregularity in some of the patterns. Hand and not machine made! Magnificent. And very inspiring.

Happy Birthday to Jess from Denmark 🇩🇰🥳 it's a beautiful gift, and quite an impressive display of skill and patience 👍

Wieder einmal sehr schön geworden, die Arbeit und deine Geduld die du in deine Projekte investiert sind unglaublich. Super 👍. Und Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag an deine Tochter 🎉🎂🎊

moroccan fasi geometric patterns are really beautiful 😍😍

It looks awesome. It is incredible how much of patience needed for this and I just can't stop being amazed on your creativity and problem solving ability. Happy birthday to her! :)

Holy smokes, the star-pattern is absolutely amazing!

Patience of a saint !! Beautiful

Wow ,,,you are one great teacher,father,husband ,and Carpenter. I love your videos.

So much work! I can't even begin to imagine how past artisans did that withouth modern tools!!! Fabulous results. Happy Birthday Jess!

Great work as usual. Thank you Neil. I had great time while watching

A huge amount of talent and a tremendous amount of patience creates a thing of beauty 👍

Uncle Pask, you're so cool! You continue to surprise and inspire us.

I thought that I enjoyed tedious things, but you sir are on another level! Very well done! And Happy Birthday, Jess!

One of these days, I’m going to get a hold of one of your designs. One day, one of my nieces or nephews’ child will take it on to the Antiques Rodeshow and be told how priceless the item is and that there is a KZfaq of the item being built. Your work is beyond words.

A man of many talents and a master of a lot of them.

Good heavens! That was a LOT of work. That takes a lot of patience.

You must be one of the most patient people in the world. It looks awesome.