An artist from Bungendore, near Canberra, had the privilege of hand crafting a gift given to King Charles on his visit to Australia this week. The piece was commissioned and delivered by the department of defence and officially handed over at the Sydney opera house.
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00:00I'm Scott Mitchell, I've been a woodworker for a long time and today I'm working on a
00:14box.
00:15Well it's a pretty flash little box, it's going to house a nice glass plate and it will
00:19be a gift for King Charles.
00:21A box fit for a king, I hope.
00:29If we close it up to start with, there's his new cypher which includes Charles Rex III,
00:36his crown as opposed to the late Queen's crown which is quite a different shape.
00:40So this is one of the first times this has been put together.
00:43On the inside of the lid, our Australian states and territories floral emblems are shown and
00:51the golden water which is our national emblem in the middle.
00:54So what I chose is Tasmanian bird's eye hewn pine, rather old, I believe this particular
00:59stock is around 2000 years old, I have a small stash, and Victorian fiddleback blackwood.
01:05I mean everyone knows he spent some time in Victoria a long time ago when he was at school
01:09at Timbertop.
01:10So he'd certainly be aware of a few of the Australian native species I'm sure, he takes
01:15quite an interest in nature from what I gather so I think he'll get a real buzz out of seeing
01:21a few of the territories and states' emblems.
01:23Yeah it's a big deal, I mean it's a very important piece, it serves a ceremony and a purpose
01:29so it was a pretty nice conversation when they confirmed that I was going to make a
01:34box for King Charles.
01:36He'll probably spend a bit of time in the dark somewhere and then come out at the right
01:40time I hope, not just under the royal bed with all the other presents.