Lyptus wood Ring Boxes

I only have one picture of these boxes right now but I think it works pretty well.

While working on band saw boxes I have always held on to the cores that come out of the drawers when you cut the drawer interior. I have made smaller boxes (like these) as well as clocks from the leftovers.

As I mentioned before, Lyptus is a hybrid wood that grows fast and from the stump left from the first cut. Since they designed this wood to be eco-friendly, the least I could do is use the wood to its fullest extent. So, I made these boxes out of the cores from previous boxes.

Unlike most band saw boxes, the grain on these two run front to back instead of side to side. It wasn’t really a problem but for a while I couldn’t figure out why they looked different. My super hero side, Captain Obvious, came out and pointed out this little fact while I was working on them.

These are intended to hold very small jewelry items. They could sit on a side table and hold rings that come off at night. Or anything else small for that matter. I flocked the interiors with different colored fibers to add a little diversity to them and used a brushed pewter pull on one and a brass button pull on the other.

I think these were the first two items that I fully utilized thinning polyurethane and doing a thorough job of rubbing the surface with 0000 steel wool in between coats. It has become my go-to finish since then.

The bigger box is 3 1/2” wide x 4” deep and 2 1/2” tall with the pull. The smaller one is 2 1/2” wide x 3” deep and right about 1 1/2” tall with the pull. The smaller one will actually fit into the bigger one. Kind of a nesting thing going on.

Thanks for looking!

-- Behind the Bark is a lot of Heartwood----Charles, Centennial, CO