Some recent work

[LEGEND65]

My three latest jewelry boxes:

one was a real challenge. Second one is pretty simple but my favorite of the three. It's just 3 layers of 1/8" baltic birch bent over a board at the center and clamped down, no complicated bending jig required. And the third one also pretty simple, and the most functional of the group. I really like using the full extension slides for access to the whole drawer. This was a bit interesting because the inside of the box is at about a 4 degree angle, the guides are at that angle as well. Made fitting the drawers a little interesting.

-Kevin

[-MIKE-]

Beautiful.

Love the drawer handles on the last one.

[Robatoy]

Bold, refreshing, innovative, brilliant! And that is just my reaction to the designs. The execution looks great as well. Kudos, bro'.

[Lee Michaels]

Good lookin' stuff Keven. I love the designs. You obviously have to work a little harder to make the drawers and make them fit when doing designs like this. It was time well spent.

[Ed Pawlowski]

Very nice! Last one is my favorite, but they are all superb works of art.

[dadiOH]

Those are nice, very creative. Someone also did a first rate job on lighting them for the photos too. You?

[Phisherman]

I noticed that too. The photography is first-rate.

[Upscale]

architect and build a few houses similar in shape to those jewelry boxes.

[cwo4cno7325]

I'm disgusted! Those projects must have been done with Magic! I now don't feel qualified to wipe down the toolbox of such a Master Woodworker.

[Leon]

Absolutely great Kevin but I was really turned off with the mechanical steel slides on the last one. May I suggest sliding dado's next time?

[Upscale]

Or, maybe undermount slides that aren't visible.

[Robatoy]

Holy shiat... good eye, Leon. And a good point. I didn't even notice them the first time around, now they stand out like a sore slide. Yup, they got to go.

*slaps forehead wondering why I didn't see them before....* r

[Lee Michaels]

Holy shiat... good eye, Leon. And a good point. I didn't even notice them the first time around, now they stand out like a sore slide. Yup, they got to go.

*slaps forehead wondering why I didn't see them before....* ===================================

Now, now guys...., settle down. He may have had good reason to put those slides on there. He may have some VERY heavy jewelry,,,. or gold bars..., or spanish bullion. In which case, he would need those metal slides!

[Leon]

Holy shiat... good eye, Leon. And a good point. I didn't even notice them the first time around, now they stand out like a sore slide. Yup, they got to go.

*slaps forehead wondering why I didn't see them before....*

But in all fairness, the boxes are top rate. I guess I quickly noticed because I built 2 jewelry chests about a year ago and all 26 drawers had the sliding dado's for slides.

Now Kevin did mention that he liked the drawers coming "all" the way out however he is obviously capable of building to tolerances close enough that the sliding dado would allow the drawers to be pulled out enough that the drawer backs would be fully visible. Basically my drawers will open far enough that only the 1/2" thick drawer back is still inside the cabinet.

[Leon]

Good point! But there should have been a lock too, huh? ;~)

[LEGEND65]

Thanks! I've been in a rut with the handles for a while and the same simple straight handle with angled sides was what fit the design but I wanted to change it up some how. They are staggered like that because the best grain in the drawer fronts made a swirl right through the center and I didn't want to cover it. I went back and forth positioning like that for quite a while before committing to it.

-Kevin

[LEGEND65]

Wow! Thanks!

-Kevin

[LEGEND65]

Thanks! Yep, I do the photos. When you sell online the photography is what sells, so it helps to have that as your hobby. I have a good size light tent, but the second two are too wide for it. My lighting setup is actually pretty simple though. I have a 4 ft fluorescent fixture hanging from an upside-down U shaped frame. On the legs of the U I have 4 clamp lights with CFL bulbs. Everything has the same color balance. I can turn on/off clamp lights to get more light coming from one side however I want. The light tent helps diffuse the light, but with the fluorescents it's already pretty diffuse. But I'm in trouble if I have to photograph anything bigger than those.

-Kevin

[LEGEND65]

Ha ha! Actually from a woodworking perspective everything is very simple. There are a lot of half lap joints and pocket screws in what I do. If I can do it, you can do it.

-Kevin

[LEGEND65]

One of the things I like about doing jewelry boxes is I can get away with some things that would be too much on the scale of full size furniture, and you want to go another order of magnitude bigger!

-Kevin