McKenna\'s Birthday Jewelry Box

good for you , barry .
nice box ,
and a great gift !

i bet she’ll love it .

-- david - only thru kindness can this world be whole . If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure. Dan Quayle

Very nice Barry,She will love it

-- Life used to be soooo much simpler!!!!

great box … she’ll love it

it’s fun using scrap and mystery wood.

-- Paul , Calfornia

That’s fine work, Grandpa Barry!! She’ll appreciate it more and more as she grows older!
I like the larger key that extends into the box to hold up the tray, good thinking! That Linden has got some great grain going on too… Really Nice Job!!

-- Mike in Concord, NH---Unpleasant tasks are simply worthy challenges to improve skills.

Yes, I made this for my grand-daughter…but it was a test also…I had the maple and I had the linden and I had not machined or worked with either of them. So, I made the box out of both. When I look at it after it’s finished, I do like the grain on the linden…and well, I wish I’d made the entire box of linden…however…it’s done now and the next item will be entirely of either maple or linden.

-- /\/\/\ BarryW /\/\/\ Stay so busy you don't have time to die.

Great looking little box, I like the design that you have used on it. She will fill it with that shiny stuff. Great build PAP PAW .

-- Mike, Bruce Mississippi = Jack of many trades master of none

This is a nice box, Barry. I am sure that McKenna will enjoy it for years to come. You chose a nice wood combination as well. I have never seen linden before but it does have some interesting grain to it. I also like that the box was built from lumber that you rescued.

Nice job.

-- Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful- Joshua Marine

Looks like a well thought out design and meticulous use of material. Well done Barry. I am sure she will love the box forever.

I, too, have found beautiful stange woods in foreign pallet. Some, reddish and had a doo-doo smell to it when you cut into it that soon vanished. I called it Usta-Stink wood.

-- Peace in Wood ~ http://peace-in-wood-by-dustynewt.zibbet.com/

BarryW,
Very nice looking box! I’ve never seen linden before, interesting. I’m sure your grand/daughter will enjoy it. Coincidentaly my grand/daughters name is McKenna also! She’s only 3 1/2 and still on the rocking horse. I’ll have to show her this jewelry box tomorrow. I’ve never seen a kid so interested in everything I do. Does your McKenna like to help out in the shop also? Tell your McKenna, that we wish her a very happy birthday also!

Sincerely,
Ken McGinnis

-- woodbutcher north carolina

All my grandchildren are hundreds of miles from their family here…my children are all raising their own families now and since I care for my 91 year old mother I never get to go see any of them…and they do come to visit but rarely. It’s probably a blessing for my children I’m far away…and why I need to work in wood…keeps me busy and out of their lives…

-- /\/\/\ BarryW /\/\/\ Stay so busy you don't have time to die.

Great box. Love the woods and the large key/tray holder is inovative.

Keep it up.

Scrappy

-- Scrap Wood's the best...the projects are smaller, and so is the mess!

Beautiful job, Barry. Thanks for the details.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over two decades.

thank you for posting this i like the top spline as they are also a lip for the tray i will be using this idea in my next set of boxes will speed up the process a lot
did you have aly issues making that big of a cut ?

-- self proclaimed copycat

Good job

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Eddy, yes I did have issues….make certain you’ve got that box held down solid…I had a little wobble…that’s something I learned making this box…no wobble of any kind…clamp the work piece down so it can’t move at all.
A learning process is no good without mistakes…I made the mistakes…now you learn from them. I did.

-- /\/\/\ BarryW /\/\/\ Stay so busy you don't have time to die.