X-Mas jewelry box

[breedonm]

Here is the present for my bride of 14 yrs. Plans from a Wood magazine. Finish is Linseed oil and wax with a good deal of polishing,,,in fact my right arm is now strong enough that I may try out for a pitching job for the Blue Jays this spring.

[ejs1097]

Absolutely beautiful. She'll love it. Great Work.

[mater]

Very nice present. Beautiful work.

[Pappy]

WOW! I love the style and the figure in the wood is fantastic.

[boblon]

Yep, that gorgeous. Great work.

No doubt she will love it.

BobL.

[jhart]

She should love it. Looks great. Nice finish.

[DonHo]

The box is beautiful, your workmanship is great and the contrast in the wood is wonderful. Is the dark wood natural or a dark finish? If a finish what finish, it looks great.

DonHo

[breedonm]

Thank you all for the compliments!
The dark wood is Wenge and the finish is Linseed Oil followed by 2 coats of lacquer and simply paste wax and a lot of polishing to achieve the correct lustre.
Thanks again

[djkert]

I'm curious as to what the light wood/finish is also?

[footprintsinconc]

WOW, another maple/walnut contrast! very beautiful looking box. LOML says your wife is real lucky.

i dont know what i was thinking showing her the pictures, but she says she would like something like that. which month or issue number of wood mag was the plans in?

[breedonm]

Hello Again

The light wood is a piece of Bird's eye Maple with the same oil/lacquer/wax finish as the Wenge.
The plans are from Wood Magazine issue 165 October 2005. Perhaps the plans could be downloaded from the magazine's website.

[Brian in Dawson Creek]

Very nicely done

[Knottscott]

Beautiful job....love that BE maple!

[lrogers]

VERY nice! That should get you another 14 years at least!

[JimD]

I made 4 of these last Christmas. My wife, daughter, and both grandmothers really like them. I bought some ribbon maple from a local dealer. I could not plane it to thickness so I cut it down on the BT3100 and got a scrap about 1/8 thick. My wife and daughters boxes are solid figured maple but the grandmothers boxes used these little "scraps" of the figured wood on the outside of plain maple blanks. Took more time but made good use of the figured wood. My planner only goes to 8 5/8 so I had to put joints in the top - I would have preferred not to but nobody complained.

A feature I put in that was not in the plans was little dividers about 1/8 thick. I put walnut ones in one direction and maple in the other. The top does not have dividers but both drawers do.

Jim