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"Dearest husband, your sacred mission is to build me an Easter egg display box of the finest wood with which I shall impress my esteemed family when we host Easter dinner."

Okay, actually, my wife told me to build her a simple box to use as an egg centerpiece for Easter dinner. I may have exaggerated a bit. Her original idea was just a block of wood with holes drilled into it, as she found on Pinterest.

Wood is curly maple and cherry. Finish is several coats of spray on satin lacquer. I used the dovetail spline jig I built a week ago (posted as another project here) to strengthen the miters. Wood was resawn and oriented to create a continuous grain effect.

Yes, her family was mightily impressed by it. It led to several tours of my messy shop.

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Great looking box….errr display. Really nice wood choice.
 

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very nice, love the joinery
 

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Love that Curly Maple, and those oversized splines are rocking it too.

Thanks for posting.
 

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Nicely done. I usually go too far when my wife asks for similar things. Can't seem to help myself when a new project presents itself!
 
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