A while back, a friend had an ash tree from their yard milled into floorboards. Those then those sat in storage until they moved and he donated the lot of them to me. As a thank you gift I made this small box for him:
I tried to keep details from the floorboards intact. The pull on the lid is part of the tongue from the boards and the lip on the box is from the groove. The bottom I planed down thin enough to show a bit of the separation between the boards (I swear it was intentional!)
I’m particularly proud of the tight miters on this one and the fact that the lid will fit no matter the rotation.
Materials: twice reclaimed ash
Finish: two coats of shellac and a coat of paste wax.