Two years.  Two years it took me to finish this thing. Two years spent squinting at it- looking for possibilities. Two years of thinking about leg options late into the night.

And now it’s done.

Large Jewelry box, bubinga, mahogany and ebony with Pendelton wool drawer linings.

I used brass plane iron adjustment knobs with rosewood infill. The drawers and top are made from a piece of billet wood I acquired from a guy who knows a guy who works on the docks here in Portland It was a piece of mahogany-like wood spalted from prolonged time in a ship hold in proximity of water and suitable fungi.

closeup drawers

The top handel was hand-carved. The inner drawer dividers are rippled maple from a local maple tree.

top drawer open

I finished this with oil and wax. Couldn’t bring myself to give it a top-coat.

jewelry box front

I managed to use lots of ebony pieces I’d had laying around for the trim.

drawers

The top lifting box is of a piece of Chechen I’d been lugging around with me since the early 1990’s. Drawer linings of Pendleton wool scraps.

JB top open

Since this was a practice piece, my price on this has nothing to do with the amount of time it took. Thanks for looking!