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Hawaiian Bouquet Koa Jewelry Box
With Special Necklace and Earring Storage
10" x 13" x 5.5" no drawer; $600.00 including delivery. One drawer ($775)and two drawers ($950) are also available
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This is my first piece made from Hawaiian koa, and the wood itself is so special I felt I had to make a box that would do the wood justice. It's difficult and expensive to get koa here on the mainland, and I wanted to make the most of a wonderful pallet of shorts I was able to will into my shop. Koa grows only in Hawaii, and woodworkers there tend to not really work with anything else very much, and woodworkers elsewhere, lucky enough to have ever worked with koa, envy them. Koa has deep luster, and more diversity from board to board than any other wood I've ever experienced. It tends to run from beautiful, to outrageously beautiful. This box, featuring a center medallion of spectacularly curly koa, combines koa with its transplanted Hawaiian companion, mango, along with accent lines in ebony, and cameos from holly and Balinese black palm. The top is crosscut a full 1/16" thick off a solid block, built bit by bit from solid lumber. For some photos of this process click here. The resulting thick veneer is sandwiched with a plain koa back piece over 1/4" Baltic birch plywood to create a box top with the stability of a veneered panel, but the perfectly finished deep luster and durability of solid wood. Hawaiian Bouquet with necklace and earring storage, $600. , Buy in stock Hawaiian Bouquet, one drawer, with necklace and earring storage , $775.00 in stock (Buy) Hawaiian Bouquet, two drawers, with necklace and earring storage, $950.00 out of stock (Buy) For details, on the two drawer version click here.
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| Here's an open shot, (the two drawer version here, same system is used on the no drawer and one drawer versions), showing the innovative necklace storage and earring storage systems. The necklace box has a spring hinged, padded top section that places gentle tension on necklaces, preventing the inevitable entanglement common to inexpensive necklace "pouches" used by many box makers. This may be easily opened and closed with a flick of a finger. The earring tray allows about 20 pairs of earrings to hang, both studded ones in the two rows of slots, and hook style in front through the holes. There is a two slot ring pad on one side , and flat storage on black velveteen in back on the other, with a handle in the middle for lifting the tray. For those of you who don't wear earrings, I can ship this box with a more standard mitred tray with ring storage instead. Italian brass cylinder hinges, and solid brass lid stay by Brusso that I use in many of my boxes. The bottom dividers form nine compartments sized from earring to bracelet, and can be removed. | |||
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| Looking straight down on the top. Photos can't capture the deep luster of curly koa like that in the center of this box, and the curly and spalted mango compliments it beautifully, with its range of golds and peach. | |||
| Corner detail, of open lid, showing the mango butterfly spline that secures each corner. This are driven into the miter joints at assembly from the bottom, forming a joint that needs no glue (I glue them anyway). Another extraordinary detail on an extraordinary jewelry box. | ||
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Here's a simpler version for sale for $390-490 without drawer, and $750 for one drawer and $925 with two. Click on image for more info and ordering information. | ||
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