It's still a work in progress, but I'm making headway. Here's a few
photos of my progress so far.

I got the basic plans from an old copy of Wood magazine. They used
cherry for the jewelry box, but I had a large hunk of walnut that's been
sitting in my shop for about 10 years so I decided to resaw it and make
a walnut jewelry box instead.

I wanted to lighten it up some, so I'm using some figured maple for the
drawer fronts.

Since it was about 5" thick, I was able to have similar pieces for the
sides. I positioned them so the figure made sort of a bow in the back.
There was a lot of really dark wood - probably water stains but nothing
to do about them. Adds sort of a flame effect.

On the front base molding I had a nice piece but cut it about a
sixteenth short when doing the miters. Rats. Had to use another piece.
I wanted to position it so that the arch was centered, but there was
some snipe from the planer on the board and I couldn't go as far to the
right as I wanted. Oh well. Not optimal, but not too bad.

I haven't made the drawers yet, so the fronts are just positioned in the
blanks to give an idea of what it'll look like. I resawed a pieced of
figured maple then bookmatched it get the fronts.

Golly I hope she likes it...

....Kevin
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Kevin Miller
http://www.alaska.net/~atftb
Juneau, Alaska
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