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Don't tell my wife, this is her Christmas present.
Sort of a bandsaw box, but instead of drawers that slide out, the trays pivot on two axles made from 1/8" brass rod. It's small, it would fit inside a 4" diameter circle. I used some narrow 4/4 bloodwood stock. I was originally planning to template route the trays, but the small size confounded me. I took everything to its final shape by hand, so there's a good deal of imprecision. The lids are solid, and I put the shape into them with a microplane and card scraper. The base is a bookmatched glueup of a resawn piece of my thin bloodwood stock. The grain pattern was a sort of happy discovery--the grain was mostly straight as an arrow in my stock.
This shows the completed box with the contoured lids. I was sick of making rectangles, but I haven't got a lathe to make round things, so this is what I came up with. It's sort of inspired by a piece I saw in the Klockit catalog. But I made my own templates and worked out the design myself to take advantage of my narrow stock.
My version allows both halves of the lid to open. Through [s]dumb luck[/s] inspired design, the halves do not interfere with each other, so each tray is individually accessible.
Opening this up reveals more trays beneath...
Yet more trays...
Sort of a bandsaw box, but instead of drawers that slide out, the trays pivot on two axles made from 1/8" brass rod. It's small, it would fit inside a 4" diameter circle. I used some narrow 4/4 bloodwood stock. I was originally planning to template route the trays, but the small size confounded me. I took everything to its final shape by hand, so there's a good deal of imprecision. The lids are solid, and I put the shape into them with a microplane and card scraper. The base is a bookmatched glueup of a resawn piece of my thin bloodwood stock. The grain pattern was a sort of happy discovery--the grain was mostly straight as an arrow in my stock.
This shows the completed box with the contoured lids. I was sick of making rectangles, but I haven't got a lathe to make round things, so this is what I came up with. It's sort of inspired by a piece I saw in the Klockit catalog. But I made my own templates and worked out the design myself to take advantage of my narrow stock.
My version allows both halves of the lid to open. Through [s]dumb luck[/s] inspired design, the halves do not interfere with each other, so each tray is individually accessible.
Opening this up reveals more trays beneath...
Yet more trays...
Mrs. Wallnut
Turaj (in Toronto) 
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