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Mar 19
2 min

Mark and drill

I make some jewellery boxes that have a lid that pivots up. Read about how I do this in this technical Blog post

Mar 1
2 min

Tape and glue does the trick

One thing that often needs to be solved when making boxes (or anything really) is how to hold the item that is being worked on. Sometimes...

Nov 20, 2020
2 min

Inlays, curves and tapers....the story of jewellery box lids

I do like making jewellery boxes that have curved tapered lids. There is another blog post talking more about how the curve is done. Here...

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Dec 27, 2019
1 min

Making dust (and noise too!)

Noise and dust is made shaping a walnut jewellery box lid..

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Dec 20, 2019
3 min

'Flow' chest of drawers

A chest of drawers is a large item of furniture to make. In this post, I show how I made the 'Flow' chest of drawers.

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Apr 29, 2019
1 min

A place to store time - part 3

It is always exciting to visit the veneer merchant and select some veneer for a project you are working on. Just to break the illusion of...

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Apr 15, 2019
2 min

A place to store time - part 2

In the last post in this multi-part blog entry, I was showing how the core of the jewellery boxes were made, and some of the veneering...

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Apr 5, 2019
2 min

A place to store time - part 1

I had this idea that I would make some jewellery boxes that could (and I say could) be used to keep cufflinks, collar stiffeners and...

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Jonathan Pearce

Handmade boxes