My first box

Beautiful!! I’ll bet she really loves it!

Beautiful design and execution!

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Cool looking box! Nice job.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

That’s really nice. The lid is awesome. Great wood.

-- mtnwild (Jack), It's not what you see, it's how you see it.

Very nice work. love the curly maple – ziricote contrasts of the lid and splines.

-- A thing of beauty is a joy forever...

That is a gorgeous box. I like your choice of materials. Thanks for sharing.

-- My favorite piece is my last one, my best piece is my next one.

I like the design and types of wood that you have used, well done.

Woody.

-- Woody, UK

I really like your design, the box loos great. looks very well thought out.

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Great wood choices! Very sharp looking box

-- Regards, Norm

A Great first effort..
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-- Bruce

it’s beautiful.
Tears for sure!

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

This is a very pretty little box. I really like the design. Favorited!

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Gorgeous in every detail : )

-- You know you're getting old when you know the difference between you're (you are) and your (belonging to you) AND how to use them in a sentence .

Really beautiful work. Doesn’t look like a first time attempt for me.

Mark

-- Mark, Florida, http://penturner.wordpress.com/

Nice design. The design is very exquisite.

-- - Michael [..for God's glory." 2 Cor. 10:31] Over 300000 species of trees, yet we take the credit for their beauty...

Would be interested in a few details of how you made it, esp. how the black center of the lid was fitted into the white wood. Beautiful work. Very nice.

-- Kevin, Blue Springs, MO

Very beautiful. I love the way you rounded all the hard edges. It makes the whole piece feel organic with a flow that is so typical of asian designs. Well done on the inlay (or however you did it) of Ziracote into the lid and the handmade knob is the crowning touch. You obviously put a lot of thought into the design and choice of woods because the Zebrawood bottom is a real surprise. Really, really superb. I favorited this one!

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This is an extraordinary piece! I love the simple lines and organic curves. Your choice of woods are excellent too. The delicate details of your joints are well designed and executed. I think you could make a series of these as the design is quite a classic. Well done!

-- "They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." ~ Edgar Allan Poe

Thanks for all of the kind comments. I’ve definitely become somewhat hooked on making boxes, and have now made a handful more. I’ll post a few more in the near future. Also, my thanks and apologies to other LumberJocks, whose far superior boxes inspired me to “borrow” some of their ideas.

As for the question on the lid, I simply glued a small piece of ziricote, about 1/4” think, onto the piece of curly maple. I then clamped it down and took a belt sander to it until the edges blended into one. While you can’t see it here, I didn’t get as tight of a bond as I should have, which resulted in a not-perfect transition. I’ve gotten better on later work though, so I learn as I go. I was going to make the sides all nice and straight, but a side-effect of the belt sander was that the middles ended up thinner that the corners, which gave it a somewhat unintentional, but much appreciate asian-fusion look.

-- Bruce, San Jose, Ca www.spotofwood.com

Stunning Contrasts in wood. The depth of the lid is very eye catching! Thanks for sharing.

-- Michael, Fort Worth, TX. "I wood if I could!"