Jewelry boxes for my daughters.

My wife was on a group facebook chat with my 3 daughters, so I joined in and made the mistake of mentioning to the oldest one who had a daughter about 10 months ago, that I was going to make a small jewelry box for my new grand daughter. So my wonderful wife piped in and volunteered me and and said why don't I make one for each of the daughters as well, to which all three said instantly yes please, please, please. Damnit, :(from a single box to 4 boxes. Thank you wifey for volunteering me....Not!

So about 3-4 weeks later here is the result, however I ran out of wood to make the 4th box so my grand daughter missed out, something wrong there! The wood is Silky Oak which I got from my neighbour who is an arborist, I came home one day and there were 2 small logs heaved over the back fence. So sliced and diced and then the pieces sat in the shed for two years drying. Coated with a couple of coats of polyurethane. The trays are lined with black velvet with the 1st tray for rings and earings , 2nd for chains and the 3rd for bangles. I didn't take any pictures of the inside of the trays as the black velvet absorbs the light so details aren't shown anyway. The top is Emprador Marble which I cut from a 600mm square tile and rebated into the frame edges and glue in with epoxy. The handles are solid stainless steel.

There are a bit rough but I don't think the daughters will complain. The box on the left in the image with the 3 boxes looks a bit wonky but it is only the distortion from the camera angle.

The handles :doh::oo:

Hi Ed,

Very interesting use of marble and steel! Are the layers hinged or do they lift off? If hinged, what stops the top layer flipping open when you open the bottom layer?

Thanks for sharing.

Brian

The Marble top is epoxied down to the Box and the 3 drawers just slide in and out. The Marble is reasonably heavy so just safer to make it to not open up as would it probably topple the box over. The stainless handles stuck out a bit further than I wanted but if I tried to shorten them by cutting them down to make them closer to the drawer I may have damaged the finish of them. So in the end decided not to, I don't think that my girls will mind.