This jewelry box was an exercise in hand-cut dovetails and mortise-and-tenon joinery. It is made of solid white oak with ipe top panel and button. It is finished with natural Danish oil finish and protected with paste wax.
The flush-fit top is a mortise-and-tenon frame with an “overlap” panel (like interlocking letter ‘C’s) of beveled ipe. It rides on flush brass-pin hinges, stops open, and closes with a beveled button made of ipe.
The sides were resawed and cut “cardboard box” fashion, so as to unfold into a continuous grain match around all four sides. Dimensions of the box and the dovetails themselves were chosen to make maximal use of the golden ratio for a visually pleasing effect. The 1/2-inch bottom is a bookmatched frame-and-panel.
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