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Dalbergia Garden Jewelry Box

comments (2) March 2nd, 2009 in Reader's Gallery     
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Overall view showing legs continuing into top with macassar ebony inlays.
Open shot showing the end grain panel retained by interior mitred cherry banding, dovetailed drawers, and earring tray.
Close-up of top, showing end grain center panel with Brazilian tulipwood and satinwood accents around the interior tulip lobes,with Peruvian walnut bordering the tulips holly field,  and maple  dots.  Buffard  Freres inspired inlay banding , with  jatoba berries at the vertices of the honey locust leaves, in a field of curly maple.
Overall view showing legs continuing into top with macassar ebony inlays.

Overall view showing legs continuing into top with macassar ebony inlays.
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Jewelry box with end grain panel retained in inlay banding. Cherry and macassar ebony case; compound mitred top section is solid cherry with maccassar ebony inlay, and the lower case is solid maccassar ebony legs and stretchers with panels veneered with a thick veneer cut from the same board as the top section. This construction allows a very tight fit  of the drawers without binding from seasonal stresses.


Design or Plan used: My own design - End grain panel and inlay banding jewelry box
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Comments (2)

Triumph1 Triumph1 writes: I have seen what you go through to make the top panel...unbelievable. Very, very nice box.
Posted: 1:45 pm on March 23rd

daveknipfer daveknipfer writes: Well done ...... as a fellow box-maker I can see the effort and troubles you went through to pull off such a lovely piece.

Thanks for sharing the photo!

Knipfer
Posted: 7:21 pm on March 3rd

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