Friends of my wife and I are going to be married in May. After seeing the envelope box that I made for our wedding 5 years ago, they asked if I could make something similar for them as a commission. I decided I’d do it as a gift instead, they just don’t know that part yet.
They left wood selection up to me, so I set out in search of some KD figured walnut. The box is just a basic dovetailed box in curly walnut. The base is quartered walnut, and the frame for the lid was also cut from the straightest-grained stock that I had left. The straight grain was necessary since all the profiling was done with molding planes and scrapers. Pics in just a minute...