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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. Sorry,
out of stock ,
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Hawaiian Bouquet, one drawer, with necklace and earring storage
, $775.00 Sorry,out of stock,
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Hawaiian Bouquet, two drawers, with necklace and earring storage,
$950.00 Sorry,out
of stock
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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. |