African Mahogany and Wenge Jewelry Box

[mater]

Beautiful work.

[boblon]

Thanks everyone for the nice comments

Travis,
The Heart was done by printing a heart from my computer and making a template from it. Then using a guide bushing in the router I made a second, smaller template. Then using both templates and two different sized guide bushings I routed out both pieces then cut them in half.

The guy I built it for was following the build via pictures I posted on the web. The ones regarding the heart start here:

Heart fabrication

Creating the pocket for the inlay starts here:

Inlay Pocket

Normally to create an inlay you use a template and two different guide bushings, one to create the inlay and one to create the pocket. Think of this as just too independant inlays and I think you'll get the idea.

BobL.

[Ken Massingale]

That's a beautiful piece of work. You and the new owner should be extremely proud, Bob.
ken

[lrogers]

Wow, a lot of work and love went into that little box. Beautiful work and the inlays are awesome.

[DonHo]

WOW, that's a beautiful box. The wood is great and the workmanship is even better.

DonHo

[Garasaki]

That's nuts.

[Wood_workur]

that is really nice. you must have put a lot of work into that.

[Brian in Dawson Creek]

I concur … nice work

Brian

[Radman]

Outstanding!!!

[wouldchuck]

Thanks everyone for the nice comments

Travis,
The Heart was done by printing a heart from my computer and making a template from it. Then using a guide bushing in the router I made a second, smaller template. Then using both templates and two different sized guide bushings I routed out both pieces then cut them in half.

The guy I built it for was following the build via pictures I posted on the web. The ones regarding the heart start here:

Heart fabrication

Creating the pocket for the inlay starts here:

Inlay Pocket

Normally to create an inlay you use a template and two different guide bushings, one to create the inlay and one to create the pocket. Think of this as just too independant inlays and I think you'll get the idea.

BobL.

Fantastic! The slide show is really cool, too!