Need Advice On Building Jewelry Box ?
Q: I'm looking to build a jewelry box for my wife. It's going to be a
fairly elaborate thing about 11 inches high with doors and drawers.
I've seen similar things in the department stores, but I want to build
it myself.
I'm thinking of making it out of 1/4 and 1/2" cherry (have to see if I
can get it at the sawmill first) Is cherry easy to work with and
priced reasonably or should I use another wood and stain it?
Not sure how I'm going to do the joinery. I've seen a couple books on
building wooden boxes, but at the time I was looking for jewelry box
plans and should have been checking out the joinery techniques.
Anybody built anything similar to this. Any advice would be
appreciated.
A:-I did one for SWMBO after Christmas. I used wormy maple with walnut
accents and combined several ideas from different sources. She wanted
it wall mounted so it does not have a traditional base.
-I have build a few jewelry boxes. The job is not much different than
other woodwork. You probably need finer detail because you are working
with smaller pieces. The 1/4" wood sounds better than thicker material.
Do not mistake the small size in thinking that the job will be easy.
-Cherry would not be my favorite worrk. Sometimes it does not stain
uniformaly. As you will only be using a couple board feet of wood it
would not be expensive to get one of the exotics
-the only advise i can give is that we bought a jewelry box at a thrift
store... it ahd two drawers on the front that you pull out and one door
that came down and had some velvet inside to put rings into the slots...
cost about $2.50. was gonna take it apart