Large Custom Jewelry Boxes in Koa
Koa Mountain Jewelry Box
This box, available in no, one and two drawer versions, features an inlaid top of spectacularly curly koa mountains beneath a sky of subtly streaked ebony with genuine silver stars and a rising moon from holly. This tableau is framed in mango, along with accent lines in ebony .
"sizes: all boxes 10" x 13" X height as below
no drawer new style-$875; 5.2" shipping included Buy out of stock
2 drawer- $1300 7.8"shipping included
Koa Mountain Drawer Jewelry Box
Detail of top, showing three ranges of figured koa mountains, beneath a sumptuous ebony night sky, with silver stars and a white holly moon with a hint of blue. We also make this without the inlay for a more contemporary look, for less money. Click here for info .
Koa Mountain Jewelry Box
Here's the version without drawers of this handcrafted inlaid jewelry box, with its luscious colors and remarkable chatoyance. Though koa has been heavily replanted in Hawaii over the past couple decades, harvestable trees are now few in number, and the explosion in interest in koa as a guitar wood has made it among the world's most valuable timbers. So when I manage to get a shipment of koa in chilly Colrain, I treat it with reverence, showing its prettiest face, and stretching the most beautiful boards by using them in blocks resawn into the veneered tops.
Koa Mountain Jewelry Box
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 to prevent tangling. 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 mitered tray with ring storage instead. The bottom dividers form nine compartments inside the box.
Two drawer: 10" x 13" x 8"
Hawaiian Bouquet Jewelry Box
Here's the no drawer version of this jewelry box in the "new style." It has the same necklace storage box in the lid, and earring tray as the drawered versions, and uses the same hinges and Brusso lidstay.
The box is also available in a shallower version for a lower price, without the necklace storage, and with a simple mitred tray rather than the earring tray.
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Hawaiian Bouquet Jewelry Box
Here's a photo of the "Old Style" Hawaiian Bouquet koa jewelry box showing how it differs from the more complex (and expensive) models. The lidstay is ebony, and the mitered tray has 2 slot ring pad in the back. Below the tray the box is divided into 9 cubbies of different sizes with removable dividers.
Hawaiian Bouquet Jewelry Box
The miters are strengthened by butterfly splines made of mango, which contrast nicely against the koa. This is an extremely strong joint, and difficult to pull off, especially with the grain of the splines running in the correct direction. I confess that my first years of box making, I didn't run the splines the right way, because I didn't think it was possible. But a combination of more precision and a couple other discoveries and innovations allows me to now run splines with the grain running in the same direction as the box sides, meaning their length adds immense strength to the dovetail.
Hawaiian Bouquet Jewelry Box
Since koa has such bold and variable figure, it's especially
important to match grain, and select wood carefully. My koa
boxes are often made by re-sawing a piece long enough for one
short side and one long side, and so I get a perfect grain match
all the way around, with two book-matched corners, and two
simple continuations of the grain. Pictured is a book-matched
corner.
