A trio of jewelry boxes

[SawDustB 1228]

It's been quite a while since I posted a project on here, but it's been a bit of a strange year. I didn't have a lot of time for woodworking last year, and what time I did have went into either house projects or making pens (turning really is quite the rabbit hole). Anyway, I decided after Christmas that I wanted to get back into a real woodworking project. I suggested to my wife that I could build her the jewelry box from the guild. She didn't seem all that interested, so I eventually settled on building a pair for my two daughters. After talking a little more, my wife got more excited about it, and I'm now building three of them 

To keep things interesting, I'm going to be building them all slightly different in terms of wood combinations. The one for my oldest will be purpleheart/maple, to match some other things I've built for her. My youngest is going to get one made from maple/cherry, since the cherry will go with some of the other wood tones in her room. My wife is going to get the combination, so hers will be cherry/purpleheart. I made her a jewelry rack on purpleheart years ago, and she wants it to match.

So far, all I've managed is to get to my wood dealer (it had been over a year!) and pick up my supplies. I may end up needing more maple, but I already had a bunch on the rack so I figure I'll see how it works out.

[Mick S 2722]

I'm looking forward to it!

[treeslayer 3407]

Yep me too

[wtnhighlander 7760]

Can't wait to see those combinations next to each other.

[Chestnut 5749]

This is goign to be interesting to watch. There is a lot of detail in that jewlery box despite it being quite small.

[SawDustB 1228]

1 hour ago, Chestnut said:

This is goign to be interesting to watch. There is a lot of detail in that jewlery box despite it being quite small.

That was part of the motivation. I find I often want to work in the evenings to unwind, but it's usually not until 8:30 or 9:00 after putting the kids to bed. These have a lot of hand tool oriented details that I can work on without having to put on all the protection and dust collection. First thing I need to do is roughly figure out where my parts are coming from so I can get some of the boards milled down. I had a brief window where everything was dry yesterday and I had the car with the roof rack so I could bring my lumber home without it getting soaked in salt spray.

[Coop 7704]

12 hours ago, SawDustB said:

I had a brief window where everything was dry yesterday and I had the car with the roof rack so I could bring my lumber home without it getting soaked in salt spray.

We have high humidity down here close to the Gulf of Mexico and it can take it’s toll on autos but I never thought about you guys up north having to be subjected to salting the roads. Is that a constant maintenance problem? 

[Chestnut 5749]

It depends on how you take care of your vehicle. In the winter I wash my vehicles every 10 ish days and I haven't had many issues in the last 16 years.

[pkinneb 3659]

Nope not if you work from home and don't drive in that crap LOL

On a more serious note manufacturers have come a long way in this area and to Drew's point if you keep them washed regularly no issues. 

[SawDustB 1228]

So I haven't been totally idle on this build, but it's been a little slow so far. My milling process ends up involving a lot of manual labor, since there's no jointer in my shop (or bandsaw). I hadn't realized ahead of time just how much of the material needs to be resawn to produce two 3/8" finished boards. I'm working my way through, but generally it involves cutting the majority of the way through from each side with the table saw, then finishing with a hand saw. I'm really regretting the purple heart at the moment  but it will make my girls happy in the end.

I'm trying to get everything I need through this stage, so I can run it all through the planer at the same time to get uniform thickness on everything.