4 Corner Grain Matched Jatoba Jewelry Box and Some Useful Varnish Finishing Info

It looks great! I see your perseverance paid off.

-- Paul--- Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. — Scott Adams

It looks great! I see your perseverance paid off.

- tinnman65

Thanks Paul, I almost gave up on the finish several times…

-- There are good ships and there are wood ships, the ships that sail the sea, but the best ships are friendships and may they always be. http://www.geraldlhunsucker.com/

I like the choice of wood, the proportions ,the box joint size ,the way you fitted the lid ,over all I’ll give it AAA with 5 stars.

-- Ken from Ontario, Canada

I like the choice of wood, the proportions ,the box joint size ,the way you fitted the lid ,over all I ll give it AAA with 5 stars.

- distrbd

-- There are good ships and there are wood ships, the ships that sail the sea, but the best ships are friendships and may they always be. http://www.geraldlhunsucker.com/

Looks greatJerry. At least it didn’t take long.

-- Bill M. "People change, walnut doesn't" by Gene.

Jerry, at first glance at the pictures I thought you added a stripe in the back not realizing that was the hinge. You have become the master at these. Well done. As far as taking a month, we know you work slow. LOl.
Nice job following the grain pattern too. Glad to see you got the finish to match up. Any idea what happened to begin with?

-- Dave, Downers Grove, Il. -------- When you run out of ideas, start building your dreams.

Very nicely done Jerry!

-- Daniel P

Looks greatJerry. At least it didn t take long.

- firefighterontheside

-- There are good ships and there are wood ships, the ships that sail the sea, but the best ships are friendships and may they always be. http://www.geraldlhunsucker.com/

Jerry, at first glance at the pictures I thought you added a stripe in the back not realizing that was the hinge. You have become the master at these. Well done. As far as taking a month, we know you work slow. LOl.
Nice job following the grain pattern too. Glad to see you got the finish to match up. Any idea what happened to begin with?

- doubleDD

Thanks so much for all your nice comments Dave! As far as the finish goes, I was using a year old can of varnish to start, I thinned it and applied it with a foam brush and it came out great. Once I had to buy a new can to continue my troubles began. No earthly idea why

-- There are good ships and there are wood ships, the ships that sail the sea, but the best ships are friendships and may they always be. http://www.geraldlhunsucker.com/

Very nicely done Jerry!

- DanielP

-- There are good ships and there are wood ships, the ships that sail the sea, but the best ships are friendships and may they always be. http://www.geraldlhunsucker.com/

Yep, old and new varnish will do that.

-- Dave, Downers Grove, Il. -------- When you run out of ideas, start building your dreams.

Another really nice jewelry box!
As was stated before, your perseverance paid off for sure.

-- "It's fine in practise but it will never work in theory"

Another really nice jewelry box!
As was stated before, your perseverance paid off for sure.

- oldnovice

Thanks friend!

-- There are good ships and there are wood ships, the ships that sail the sea, but the best ships are friendships and may they always be. http://www.geraldlhunsucker.com/

Very well executed! I admire effort you put into finishing that box.

-- Ivan, Croatia, Wooddicted

Very well executed! I admire effort you put into finishing that box.

- majuvla

Thanks so much Ivan, it was a trial…

-- There are good ships and there are wood ships, the ships that sail the sea, but the best ships are friendships and may they always be. http://www.geraldlhunsucker.com/