Jewelry tends to end up scattered across a dresser, and this build tackles that head on. The maker put together a pair of wall-mounted cabinets so that a jewelry collection can stay organized and live in one spot. The clever part is the disguise: a couple of antique framed botanical prints act as the cabinet doors, so the storage blends into the wall as artwork.
The construction is solid traditional work. The cabinets are built from cherry lumber with plywood backing, and the frames come together with miters held by strap clamps. A stacked dado blade mills rabbets of 5/16 inch by 5/16 inch to receive the plywood backs, and the dados cut on the table saw run 1/4 inch deep. Mortises get squared the old-fashioned way with a hand chisel and wooden mallet.
Inside, the details really stand out to me. A black velvet compression-fit ring tray sits in the cabinet, with internal divider locations laid out around it. For earrings, repeating parallel kerfs spaced 1/4 inch apart are cut into a cherry blank, then sliced into slotted strips 3/16 inch thick. Dowel pegs sit in angled holes bored with the help of wooden drilling jigs, and matching dowels are cut to uniform lengths in a jig with a Japanese pull saw.
Everything is sanded through 220 grit with random orbital sanders and hand sandpaper, then every wooden piece and dowel is coated with General Finishes Seal-A-Cell clear finish, applied with a rag, before final assembly. One small trade-off in my view: a finger hole is bored through the plywood back so the ring tray can be removed, which means taking it out through the rear rather than the front.
Project by Les Mason Woodworks. Watch it on their YouTube channel: