Old barn siding jewelry box

Beautiful wood, great design, fine construction!

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

Great job. Did you get a lot of that wood? Do you know what kind of wood it is?

-- I didn't go to college, I was too busy learning stuff - Ted Nugent

That’s very smart sweet design and fine workmanship I like this [piece very much Alistair

-- excuse my typing as I have a form of parkinsons disease

Great looking box and an excellent use of reclaimed wood.

-- Bill - "Suit yourself and let the rest be pleased." http://www.cajunpen.com/

Great box. I like the rounded insert as compared to the square corners of the box. Good job!!

-- Derrek L.

Hey Hackman. What’s a perfect box? Sure looks good to me. I couldn’t see anything wrong, particularly in the next to the last photo. :-)

I’m gonna get around to making boxes other than bandsaw one of these days and I hope mine turn out just half as good. ‘Course I don’t have any barn wood to play around with. Hope you have a whole pile of that stuff for future projects.

-- Gary, Huntsville. Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.

The wood does look good and the box looks great! Good job!

-- Never board, always knotty, lots of growth rings

thanks for the comments!

I cant id this wood positively, the fine grains are sometimes straight like oak, and sometimes “bubbly” like sycamore. its pretty hard and my planer blades don’t like it very much. i chiseled the recesses for the magnets and pulls by hand and it took quite a bit of effort to get down to the required depth.

I do have a fair amount of this left, but it’s pretty warped as they were laying on the ground when i got them. they are mostly 1” to 1-1/8 thick, 6” wide, 8-10ft long. I’m probably going to have to stick to smaller projects with it. Not having a jointer means squaring it up by hand which is not fun!

-- James, Bluffton, IN

Very nicely done

Beautiful wood and very nice box

Rick

-- If at first you don't succeed...Don't try skydiving

Beautifull box. Love the wood and the inset in the lid.

Great design and execution.

Great use of reclaimed wood.

Keep it up.

Scrappy

-- Scrap Wood's the best...the projects are smaller, and so is the mess!