Box for a Christmas Gift

Very Nice!

I like the color contrasts between the top and the sides.

Nice Job. Can’t tell for sure, perhaps the sides are birch, possibly ash?

-- Martin, Kansas

Looks like alder for the top and birch for the rest.

-- Oldworld, Fair Oaks, Ca

You have made a very attractive Christmas gift. I liked the use of dowels.
Sharad

-- patanjali

If this is just gift wraping, the gift must be out of this world.
This really is a green box since you repurposed the wood.
Nice box.

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well the box is a Christmas gift not something to put stuff in.

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It does look like it could be Birch based on the even grain pattern and light brown sapwood. One way you might be able to test it, if you have leftover, is to apply stain to it. Rick Peter’s book, Woodworker’s Guide to Wood, states that, “When stained, the difference between heartwood and sapwood is barely noticeable.” (p. 29)

Very nice looking box, btw.

Looks like ash to me. I’ve never seen birch with such a pronounced earlywood / latewood contrast.

The center photo looks exactly like a typical ash grain pattern. I have had boards with brown sections similar to the right photo.

Then again, I could be wrong… <g><>

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at first picture the top looks like Cherry with either an Oak or Hickory handle on top of it and I believe the sides and bottom are Hickory as well . The top in the third pic doesn’t resemble Cherry from that angle any longer . Did you stain the top with something ?

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finish is shellac with no stain at all.

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Great Lookin Box

-- Jim, Kentucky

I was leaning toward lots of hickory

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i think this wood in this is actually flooring material would hickory be an option in flooring material? i know ash would be.

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Nice box Joe

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