Ron Brown began the class by turning a lid and then the box from a 4 inch cube of Padauk.  He added to the intrigue of the class by turning away the inside of the box with a small gouge using a technique made popular by Nick Cook.  It is noisy and considerably unorthodox but fast and achieves good results.  After fitting the lid to the box, he went on to turn a spalted maple insert to press into the lid.  At the end, the finished piece was won by the camera operator by a raffle drawing.