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Mother-in-laws Jewelry Box

Project by Karson posted 831 days ago 632 views 0 times favorited 10 comments Add to Favorites Watch

While I was in Kansas City, I stayed at my mother-in-laws home, and I noticed a couple of my early projects, when i was getting back into woodworking after a few years.

Project 1: A Jewlery Box. Made out of plywood with Mahogany veneer. Veneer glued on with contact cement. Hand cut inlay. Black Velvet on inside.

Some of the veneer is starting to lift. one half of the catch is missing otherwise very solid.

Made approx 30 years ago.

Her initials were “NFL” at the time. This was not a play off the football league.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †


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TomFran

2514 posts in 891 days


posted 831 days ago

Nice box Karson. Isn’t there somebody on this site that “just loves small wooden boxes???”

When I saw the “NFL,” I thought your mother-in-law was a football fan.

And, she’s still enjoying it! Nice work.

-- Tom, Surfside Beach, SC - Romans 8:28

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Missle

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posted 831 days ago

How fun is that, Dad!?

What I want to know is how on earth do you remember what you used to glue on the veneer from 30 years ago? hehe

-- Missle

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mot

4903 posts in 933 days


posted 831 days ago

I can’t remember what I did 30 minutes ago. Nice box, Karson!

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

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buford

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posted 831 days ago

nice box carson RB

-- RB

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buford

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posted 831 days ago

doesanyone know where I can get a step by step dvd videos of routers with differant bits, by hand held and on a router table. Thank you RB

-- RB

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Don

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posted 830 days ago

Karson, not for one minute did I believe that beneath that skilled cabinet maker’s exterior there didn’t beat the passionate heart of a box maker. It gives me goose-bumps to see a small box made thirty years ago. I can only trust the Lord that I will be around long enough to see some of my early boxes when they are this old, because I just love small wooden boxes! – Let me see – 88 years old? – Mmm… possible, I guess. (Don’t try to calculate my age from this, you have to know when I made my first box.)

-- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.hilsbiblechurch.org/

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Karson

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posted 830 days ago

Don: It was not a quality made box, but it has surley passed the test of time. The underlining plywood was probably BC grade Fir plywood. As you can see from the bottom of the box.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

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WayneC

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posted 830 days ago

Try this link bulford.

http://www.woodcraft.com/family.aspx?FamilyID=5599

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

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Karson

25803 posts in 1297 days


posted 830 days ago

Thanks Wayne for the info.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

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oscorner

4572 posts in 1207 days


posted 830 days ago

An antique! Great box Karson.

-- Jesus is Lord!

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