Walnut Jewelry Box

Nice work. The miters look tight and it looks like you mortised the hinges nicely too.

-- Half of what we read or hear about finishing is right. We just don’t know which half! — Bob Flexner

I was worried about the hinges. That was my first time. Did it all by hand. I think that was one of my most stressful points if the build. Was afraid I would ruin it.

-- Our fears are traitors that make us loose the good we might obtain by fearing to attempt. Guy

Nice design. It must be good when made of walnut

-- Ivan, Croatia, Wooddicted

“I really love the way it turned out.”

And you should! Looks like a jewelry itself!

-- "It's getting better..." - put this on my RIP stone!

Beautiful and nice work! Your MIL will treasure it forever. Doing something for the first time (mortising the hinges), being so afraid you are going to ruin the whole project, then realizing you did it successfully makes for a great moment, eh?

-- Kim - imperfection is the pursuit of perfection

This is a beautiful jewelry box and you did a nice job on it.

-- helluvawreck aka Charles, http://woodworkingexpo.wordpress.com

Wow. Great job. That walnut is beautiful!

I was thinking about making some of these for my daughters for Christmas this year. I was thinking of a simple rabbet joint for the drawers. How did you join your drawers?

So on the drawers I used a rabbit joint on the bottom and I 45’d all the corners. A simple rabbit joint may have been easier. I know most would have done a dado slot for the drawer bottom but the drawers are just shy of 2 inches deep so I wanted as much space as I could get. The ring storage box in the top is all cut on 45’s including the bottom of the box and just glued together. I was just messing around to see if I could do it and have it come out square which it did. I decided to use it for the ring holder when I realized I had over looked putting in a ring holder. Note on all the drawers they are all made out of 1/4 inch quarter sawn oak. I used that because it seems to stay flatter and doesn’t have so much flex or warping. I then stained them with dark walnut stain. Worked out well.

-- Our fears are traitors that make us loose the good we might obtain by fearing to attempt. Guy

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Beautiful and nice work! Your MIL will treasure it forever. Doing something for the first time (mortising the hinges), being so afraid you are going to ruin the whole project, then realizing you did it successfully makes for a great moment, eh?

- KimAccurso

-- Our fears are traitors that make us loose the good we might obtain by fearing to attempt. Guy

Beautiful jewelry box love the walnut Welome to LumberJocks

Bill

That’s real nice.

-- Regards, Charlie in Rowlett, TX --------I talk to myself, because sometimes I need expert advice.---------

Just plain beautiful. Excellent job.

-- MEL, Kansas