curly maple – Page 2

Jewlery Box Finish

I put the finishing touches on the box today and started applying pore filler and finish (ProFin – Daly’s).

Appling pore filler with a used up Rockler card.

One coat of finish.

Curly maple and paduk jewelry box

Hinges

Installing hinges still makes me nervous. These are a bit more trickery than what I’ve done before. But as usual, Marc at the Wood Whisperer (membership required) has a great step by step process.

I used super glue to attach the hinge temporarily for outlining.

After removing the hinge, I used a router and carving gouge to remove the waste inside the pencil/marking knife lines.

More waste removal.

Hinge in place.

With the hinges in place in the bottom case, I laid out hinge locations in the top.

I used CA glue to attach the hinge while I marked around the hinge.

I also needed to drill out the mortise for hinge arm.

Hinge and arm set in the bottom.

Mortise for the arm in the top.

Hinge installed.

The jewelry box .. coming along

Cleaning and trimming the top.

High angle smoother to the rescue!

The top of the jewelry box is also made of curly (quilted?) maple. Out of the planer, there was a fair amount of tear out, but my high angle smoother made short work of it. I also got the lower section internals in.

The high angle smoother makes for a purdy curly maple surface.

See!? I haven’t even put finish on it yet.

Lower internal dividers in!

Jewelry Box progress

After cutting the rabbets and doing a little clean up, it was time to glue the box up with the bottom in. Next, I’ll glue in the top and then cut the box apart.

I matched the pieces and cleaned up the rabbets together.

Then cleaned up the pieces for glue up.

Glue up!