Maple and American Black Walnut box.

I cut the curves on a bandsaw and sanded and scrapped the sides smooth. I think I cut the recess for each corner with a router whilst it was square. The keys were done when it was square too. All the machining was done when I was working in Rainham. This and making a couple of friends there were the best thing to come out of that place.

Here is the first wee jewellery box.

Four varying depth compartments for ear-rings/cuff links and the like. One pair of magnets to locate the lid to the base.

I lined the bottom with some lovely Japanese paper that I got in Tokyo- I tore each of the fibrous circles to fit each compartment, more satisfying than cutting them.

Mahogany jewellery boxes

I am making a few jewellery boxes out of mahogany.
The timber is rescued more than reclaimed, and started as a battered square section post about a metre long.

Wasted as a hammering stake, wedge or some other inappropriate, bordering on the criminal, jigalump- I couldn't leave it alone.

I found a new way to align magnets to get the top to fit on perfectly without any step at all. For sale-if you're interested!

I called this the teething table, it's a coffee table just over 130cm long . I designed and made it about the time my first daughter was born, everything had to be rounded so she wouldn't bang her head on any sharp corners and then on top of that- unclimbable. It wasn't long before she started to chew the legs then eventually managed to pull herself up to the table top. The legs remind me of jamon. I still have the jigs for the legs and top but not the awesome spindle moulder cutters I did the legs on, sadly.