Jewelry Box for my Niece

looks great!!!

-- Matt, Napa, CA...119 days to sanity...

It’s beautiful! Nothin’ wrong with hiding your mistakes, that is one of the most important skills in woodworking. And you did an excellent job. I like the corner strips a lot.

My only disappointment is that you didn’t give us that third picture! Don’t we get to see the inside and your mahogany dividers?

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LOL, as has been saidl many times here….necessity is the mother of invention. The joints look great, the ebony looks great on the corners. Great box.

-- Jim Hallada, Chesterfield, VA

Blake is right about hiding mistakes! Either hide them or incorporate them into the design.
Great box!

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

Sometimes great discoveries are made by mistake, I think it looks intentional and beautiful.

-- DocK, WV

Great box and I like the cover-ups. Great job. Beautiful wood.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

great work

-- making sawdust....

You didn’t need to rat yourself out, other than the fact that it does encourage others to keep going and think on the fly when things go wrong in their projects. I think this is one splendid small wooden box. And I just love small wooden boxes (Northern Hemisphere Division)!

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

Beautiful box, great recovery, it added an attractive feature.

-- Ron, Twain Harte, Ca. Portable on site Sawmill Service http://westcoastlands.net/Sawmill.html http://westcoastlands.net/SawBucks2/phpBB3

Yes, all the above and I love the cheeky looking dovetails on the tray.

-- Res severa verum gaudium - True pleasure is a serious business.

That box works. The dovetails look crisp, and that is a cool inlay.

-- Maplewood, MN

Nice solution to the corner problem, and a very nice box.

-- Chelle http://artsgranddaughter.blogspot.com

Must be a special niece for such a special box!

You have to be the favorite uncle!

-- Paul, Texas

She is (but I’m biased). I can assure one and all that John is a favorite Uncle. My daughter absolutely loves the box. It’s prominently displayed on her dresser. btw, we never knew he made any mistakes. We just thought it was a beautiful box!

Way to recover.

-- -John "Do I have to keep typing a smiley? Just assume it's a joke." www.flickr.com/photos/gizmodyne

I try my best not to make any mistakes , however , sometimes the mistakes add more beauty once a fix is found than the original plan called for !!! hahahaha If we didn’t learn by our mistakes , where would we be today ? Great workmanship !!!

-- Dusty56@comcast.net

Everyone else already said it, so, ditto, beautiful job.

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