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274608 galoot@l... 2021‑09‑23 Re: Jewelry box ideas
Quoting Brian Welch :

> Galoot emergency!
>
> My wife has decided she needs a new jewelry box. She sent me some links for
> ones she likes. They are expensive and awful (from a woodworking
> perspective).
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> Christmas is 3 months away. I need ideas. I need pictures. I need tips
> (especially on felting drawers--I know that must be in the archive
> somewhere). I need lessons learned. I need someone to tell me I can do this
> in 3 months.
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Of course you can do it!   But speaking as a woman who does wear some  
jewelry, the responses so far seem to be putting the cart before the  
horse.

How much jewelry and what kind?  Using myself as an example I have  
lots of earrings,  a few different rings and pins, and don't own  
bracelets (consequence of decades of safety considerations being a  
mechanic).  I would have no use for those neat necklace hangers since  
I only own one, a chain worn constantly under my shirt.  But I could  
use a slab of nice wood with a stack of larger hemispherical divots  
for stud earrings (easier to remove instead of chasing them into  
corners) and a bunch of rectanglar spaces for hook earrings (in my  
case usually several beads on a stick hanging from a hook).  Neither  
of these need padding in my book, with one exception the stones are  
harder than the wood.

Something else to discuss, especially if she tend to fine rather than  
costume jewelry, is that a jewelry box is an obvious grab-n-go for a  
thief.  The nicer stuff might want to live elsewhere.

Have fun making it!

Esther

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