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Meagan's Jewelry Box

Project by knotscott posted 268 days ago 541 views 2 times favorited 12 comments Add to Favorites Watch

This is a jewelry box made for my oldest son’s girlfriend. It’s a combination of maple, curly maple, birdseye maple, and padauk. The style was inspired by a project featured in Wood Magazine a couple of years back.


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spaids

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posted 268 days ago

Man that Padauk is beautiful! I think I just love the dark stuff. Dark wood, Dark beer. How did you cut the chamfer on the feet? They are small enough that it seems like it could be tricky.

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Scott Bryan

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posted 268 days ago

This is a really nice box. I remember the plan for this one and your interpretation of it is excellent. You chose a nice complimentary set of woods too.

Thanks for the post.

-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.

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knotscott

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posted 267 days ago

Yeah, the feet were a bit small, so I chamfered two sides and two ends on a router table while they were still one larger rectangular piece, then cut the 4 feet from that piece after, and chamfered each of remaining sides individually, holding them with a small quickgrip type clamp.

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3fingerpat

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posted 267 days ago

Excellent box, great job.

-- "You get what you inspect, not what you expect"

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CharlieM1958

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posted 267 days ago

Really nice box.

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

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woodworm

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posted 267 days ago

Very nice work!

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Tom Goodman

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posted 267 days ago

Beautiful ! I’m sure it was a hit with your son’s girlfriend. Any girl would love to have this.

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mtnwild

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posted 267 days ago

That’s a Beauty. Great job on that.

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

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pinkfish

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posted 267 days ago

BTW how did you campher the top pieces? I was making my own box recently and thought about trying to campher the top and didn’t come up with a very good solution. I used a sander which wasn’t great, took way too long and was not terribly accurate.

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Loucarb

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posted 267 days ago

Great box, great choice of woods, very nicely done. Thanks for sharing

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knotscott

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posted 266 days ago

Thanks for the supportive comments everyone. Padauk does have some amazing color.

BTW how did you campher the top pieces? I was making my own box recently and thought about trying to campher the top and didn’t come up with a very good solution. I used a sander which wasn’t great, took way too long and was not terribly accurate.

It was a couple of years ago, and I honestly don’t remember exactly what I did. I do remember it being a challenge, but IIRC the top bevel was done on the table saw…and possibly in conjuction with the jointer.

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Blake

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posted 266 days ago

Nicely done. I like how the dividers came out.

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