" Jewelry boxes and cutting boards handcrafted by a skilled artisan with twenty six years jewelry box making experience" Custom wooden boxes a specialty!   All products entirely made in our New England shop by Al Ladd, Marilyn Beal, and one part time helper. Buy products made in "the far east" -- Massachusetts! Call 413 624-3048 to speak with the actual designers and makers of these products! Why our jewelry boxes are the best made in the world.

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		Jewelry cabinet with storage for necklaces and earrings. $2500 Click on images for more info
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Creating beautiful and functional wooden objects, most often jewelry boxes and cutting boards, is the loving focus of my professional life, and has been for twenty-six years. Until a few years ago, my work could only be purchased from America's most elite hand craft galleries. Now however, thanks to this web-site, fine wood working lovers everywhere can purchase a jewelry box or cutting board directly from me; an unlikely pairing of a small, low-tech cottage industry with the enormous exposure of the internet, allowing me to sell my meticulously crafted, finished one-at-a-time, jewelry boxes direct to customers America-wide and beyond.

The interiors of my boxes now feature innovative necklace and earring storage systems that have redefined the functionality of a traditional form jewelry box, and I now make cabinets with accesible hanging storage that allows the jewelry collector a compact, beautiful tabletop storage solution.

Through various painstaking lamination techniques (for specifics on these, click here) I craft handmade jewelry boxes and cutting boards from naturally colored woods with geometry so nearly perfect, many who first see it think it 's silk-screened. My jewelry boxes and cutting boards are like no others. In a world where success is so often copied, my boards and boxes are simply too time consuming, risky, and difficult to make for others to make for sale. Butterfly splined mitres at jewelry box corners, tapered sliding dovetails on cutting board ends, multiple mortise and tenon carcass joinery, and delicately dovetailed drawer fronts on jewelry box drawers --all of these are hall marks of fine woodworking usually found only on the most opulent custom woodwork, but standard on my off the shelf inventory of jewelry boxes and cutting boards.

The internet affords many choices for wooden jewelry boxes. Most are made in China, and few let that be easily known. Wood is not a material that lends itself to less-than-careful mass production, so most Chinese jewelry boxes are more apt to end up at the landfill than as a treasured heirloom. And an American made jewelry box of highest quality is not an easy project to pull off affordably. The jewelry box offerings made by the few American shops producing a full line of furniture and accessories seem overpriced compared to our work, a result of our years of specialized experience. Our jewelry boxes stand alone, marked by ambitious complexity, and meticulous attention to detail at every level, from wood selection, to the cutting of joints, to the assembly and finish.

From my smallest gem-like ring box, to my largest chest-sized jewelry box, up to my largest chopping blocks, I exercise the upmost care and all the skills and knowledge my two and a half decades experience has garnered. Making the most functional and most beautiful jewelry boxes and cutting boards is an obsession for me, and I've been doing it long enough that I've developed techniques that allow me to do difficult tasks with speed and precision.

You can order securely online, and many jewelry boxes and cutting boards are now available for immediate shipment. Please don't hesitate to call or e-mail with any queries. I even do custom projects when time allows. A special ringer on the shop phone can usually be heard even over the planer's din, allowing me to answer your questions. The personal connection that's possible when dealing directly with an individual artisan will make your purchase of a handcrafted jewelry box or cutting board all the more special.

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