Small Jewellery Box
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14 March 2015 at 9:19 am #125599
About 6 weeks week ago, I post on the forum about Mitre Joints for boxes. Thanks to @mattmcgrane, @dave and Peter George and their advice about donkey ear shooting board, I’ve completed the project.
My goal was to create a small lightweight jewellery/trinket box for my partner’s daughter to take with her on her 2 year adventure to Japan. She was very pleased with the result! Myself, not as much but still very proud of it. Think I need to find a better way to thickness wood accurately and consistently.
The box is made out of Bubinga, Maple, African Blackwood and Ash.
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You must be logged in to view attached files.14 March 2015 at 9:35 am #125604How were you thicknessing the wood? My machine, by hand, or with Paul’s thicknessing dooda?
PS. It’s quite a nice box, but I find the spiraling of the grain on the lid quite disconcerting. Could just be the photos, I’m not sure, but it makes me feel a bit dizzy.
14 March 2015 at 10:53 am #125606@mooncabbage I was thicknessing by hand. Some of the thicknesses were 3-4 mm. I had a piece of ply which I rebated to the depths needed and planned level. If truth be told, I think my attention to detail at that stage was not what it should have been.
Re the grain pattern, that was by accident. The pieces are all made from the same piece of bubinga, but it wasn’t parallel to the grain. I didn’t notice that until the the pieces were mitred and glued up.
14 March 2015 at 1:49 pm #125608I only mentioned the grain pattern because it’s not something I would have thought of myself. If I were to do it now, I think I would avoid using contiguous pieces in that way. Even a small variance from the grain direction would likely result in that weird spiral effect. Definitely something to watch out for.
14 March 2015 at 6:09 pm #125615Great looking box! IMO, the spiraling works for me because of the grain on the front of the box is at an angle as well. Kind of like the grain is being stirred like cream into coffee in a glass mug. 🙂
25 March 2015 at 7:20 pm #125908Kevin I have made 5 such boxes with the only difference being I do Marquetry instead of the inlay. Inlay is something I will incorporate into my next round of boxes. anyway, I said all that so when I tell you this box is very well done and even if the grain orientation was by accident consider it as one of the small fun parts of wood working. This is a very nice box and she will treasure it for life, I guarantee.
PS: I attached a sample pic of one of the first boxes I made.
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