Recipe Box

Gorgeous! Love the texture of the mystery wood. What did you finish it with?

-- “There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.” ~ JRR Tolkien

Great idea I need to make one of these for Blondie, shes always cooking while I’m in the shop. Nice idea.

-- Ken, "Everyday above ground is a good day!"

Beautiful box.
I love it.
Best thoughts,
Mads

-- Mad F, the fanatical rhykenologist and vintage architect. Democraticwoodworking.

Really nice recipe box,well done.

-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/

Simple but classy. Very nice. Mitered keys look much darker than maple. Were they stained?

-- It's easy when you know how. Ontario, Canada

Nice box really like mitered splines

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Great Lookin Box

-- Jim, Kentucky

Thanks for the comments everyone!

Linjay – you’re correct, that’s not maple. I wasn’t sure why I was thinking it was – probably because I’m not so successfully working on a dovetailed box with maple.

I believe its actually Honduras rosewood. This gives me more reason to keep to 2 of my goals: get better at identifying wood and keeping a notebook handy to keep notes while I’m working on a project.

Tokolosi – I used a tung oil finish.