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Mark You have a pm! Cheers John

Thanks chaps - I appreciate the comments and sentiments. I didn't mean to come across as grumpy at the lack of feedback. I enjoyed putting the WIP together - useful to reflect on what I had done and what lessons there were to be learned. I am genuinely glad that several of you have found it...

Thanks chaps for the feedback, I think the WIP took almost as long as the box making itself, so it is nice to get a little positive feedback on what I have done. Suspect the WIP was too detailed and thus bored most readers so will perhaps limit my future postings to pictures of the end product...

Nice work DB you should be proud of that and it will age beautifully.

WOW, Paul, looking good, I've not had much time for browsing postings, let alone comment on them in recent weeks. Nice to catch up on your build and have to confess to being a little jealous of your soon to be snug and draught/leak free workspace. Inspires me to pull my finger out and get on...

And now the moment you have all perhaps been waiting for - the finished product...... Apologies, I have no idea why these are all at 90 degrees to normal and all my efforts to get them upright have failed. :( In accordance with the brief - a jewellery box with simple lines and with trays for...

There was also a small amount of tidying up to do on one corner of the box, where I had got the dovetails slightly wrong straight off the woodrat - more studious planning required. And so to the final throes. I didn't want the oil bleeding into the cedar base, (as already mentioned, I wanted...

Good point well made Marcros, I was aware of the problem and decided that sparing use of oil inside would suffice - with adequate curing/drying time between coats I've not encountered too much of a problem, particularly with a cedar base which I don't finish, in order to take advantage of the...

Thanks Paul, glad that I have managed to reduce your stress levels with the update. Now, where was I? Ah yes sanding and getting ready to glue up and finish. Although the mother of the lucky girl who was graduating hadn't decided what finish she wanted, I knew that it would be easier to...

For the biggest tray I had decided to divide it up into 12 small compartments for earrings or other small items. This required a slightly different approach to the others to avoid an overly complex glue up, so I decided to make the dividers floating, rather than mortised into the tray sides...

I roughly cut the ply to size before trimming it square on the table saw. As my saw does not readily allow me to use a zero clearance throat plate I needed to improvise a zero clearance system to stop tear out on the back of the ply. Simply a hunk of 18mm MDF strapped to the sliding table and...

Time flies when you are busy and enjoying yourself. Apologies for the interruption to the documentation of progress - I needed to get the box finished, rather than writing about making it! Apologies for the stress caused Paul - you will be happy to learn that I did indeed make the deadline and...

Hi Guys and Gals, finishing this WIP will be the end of me!! Busy day today, so I find myself settling down to type way past my bedtime, but if I don't chip away at it, it is just not going to happen. Thanks for all the positive feedback/comments, glad you are enjoying my ramblings. Lovely to...

Good point well made Pete, although not the error I was looking for - I had anticipated some kind of "easing" activity on the inside corner of the lid - whether that be a small bevel or as you suggested rounding off. As to the my mistake let the story unfold. And so the gods of measure twice...

The lid then needed to be fitted which was going to require some accurate work to get the placement of the homemade pivot hinges spot on. As I said in the introduction, I couldn't source any small enough decent quality butt hinges so had decided to go down the path of making my own hinges...