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Boxes

Sometimes some of the best gifts or keepsakes are boxes.  Hand crafted and given in love these boxes can be unlimited in their uses.  Below are several I have made in the last year or so that were gifts for people.  My boxes can be made of just about any wood and shaped as basic, or as complicated, as you like. Email me to enquire about prices, sizes, shapes or other options. Updated 11/05/2007

This is a simple hindged lid box made of: White Oak (sides and bottom) Purpleheart (lid and banding) Padauk (legs) It was finished with a high gloss to really make the wood pop!

The box was raffled off at a nursing home and ended up being won by a couple celebrating their 61st wedding anniversary. It went to a great home.

My wife asked me to make a dresser top box for her nephew who is 18, something he can put his keys, wallet and spare change in when he empties his pockets at night. Her dad has used one for years and she wanted Matt to get one too.  He loved it!

This box was made of red oak and has mitered corners, a removable lid that reveals the closed compartment and block type legs to give it a slight lift.

This is a game box I made for my wife to hold her card games and give a top for board games when we play. It has a slight lip to keep the board from sliding off and sits on a lazy susan spinning bottom for games like Scrabble!

The boxes inside can be removed easily, and if you like me this helps organize your games in groups.

For my son last Christmas I made him his very own priate treasure chest!  ARRGGG!  The chest has a hinged lid, lined bottom and padlock on the front to keep his treasures safe from the pillaging sister he shares a room with.

Imagine the look on his face when he found the treasre map I made with it that led us on a treasure hunt for the key to open his chest.  We found the key and returned to open the mysterious box which revealed a new Nintendo DS and games! It was a Christmas he will never forget! Now he uses it to keep all his special things safe.