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This was designed and built as a gift for our eldest daughter and is based upon the roof design of the Buddhist Wats (churches) here in Thailand. It is composed of rosewood with Thai padoo for the hinges and drawer components. There are 2 secrets built into it:

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The first is accessed by pressing on a very small sweet spot at the very top of the triangular piece. Pushing any where else will do nothing. The door pivots on the upper dowel while the lower set of dummy dowels is there to fool the unaware.

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Once the door is opened, a long tray slides out and can be removed.

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With the tray removed you can now access the wooden slide mechanism which releases a hidden compartment in the drawer below. A slight indentation was made in the slide to give a finger hold in order to slide the piece left and right.

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This is the drawer in it's 'normal' opened position.

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With the slide pushed to the left, the drawer will now open farther to access the rear compartment.

Here are a couple more pics of the finished product

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An this was the inspiration for the basic design

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For those interested, here is the link to a 4 part blog detailing the build.

http://lumberjocks.com/jocks/diggrduggr/blog/6971

Thanks for looking and hope you enjoyed….................

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HOLY COW!!!! That is just AWSOME!! Ive seen alot of jewelry boxes on here and in shops, but this one is by far my favorite. Really great job!! Love the hidden compartments. Can you share how you made the hinges?
 

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Doug,

Your daughter must be really proud of her dad.

Beautiful Job!
 

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Freaking brilliant.

Thanks for passing on those secret ideas!
 

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Great project! You really did a fantastic job. Really cool elements involved through out. Looks great! Congratulations on a terrific project!
 

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W O W !
Really unique jewelry box.
Thanks for an enjoyable experience.
 

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That's a real marvel of engineering!
 

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Wow! what a marvellous creation..
 

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Beautiful box. It looks like quite a project. Excellent job.
 

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incredible and the inspiration behind it definitely was captured!
 

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That is really nice. I like the secret compartment, but what I really like is those hinges - going to have to try making some some day.

Your daughter is very lucky.
 

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You put alot of thought in this design and then put it all together perfectly.Stunning!
 

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mann thats intense, very nice
 

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This has to be the winner for most unique and could be an award wining build
 

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that box is by far the most impressive yet… a lot of thought and work went into designing and building this…
can't wait to check out the BLOG on this one and see how it was put together…
very nice build…
 

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Thats what I like about lumberjocks….just when you think you have seen everything, someone like you brings a whole new angle of design. Nice work.
 

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Very clever on the hidden parts. Nice box.
 
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