Amazingstoker's photos with the keyword: hakone

Taken for 'The Sunday Challenge' (and Esther): "Brown" Call me old fashioned, but I still use a fountain pen as I like the quality of the writing it produces, and this is the elephant ink blotter that I use to dry the ink. The background is a puzzle box I bought in Japan, to open it you have to slide eight hidden panels around 60 times in the correct sequence. There's a PiP of the guy who makes the veneer for the box, a true craftsman.

Marquetry veneer maker in Hakone, the marquetry/veneers this guy is making are quite astonishing