A coral-reef jewelry stand for my eldest daughter — the…
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A coral-reef jewelry stand for my eldest daughter — the current bands are bandsawn bloodwood-in-maple, the fish are scroll-sawn on dowels, and the barrel coral started life as an abandoned egg cup.
The fourth piece — the one a few of you asked to see last week (u/lavransson called it). It's my eldest's, and it isn't really a box at all: a standing display panel where every element holds jewelry.
How it went together:
- The current bands are the fun part — I laid a 1/4" bloodwood panel on a 1/4" maple panel and drove the stack freehand through the bandsaw with a 1/2" blade in a flowing curve. Both get cut in the same pass, so the bloodwood wave drops straight back into the maple with no fitting.
- The fish are just scroll-sawn and mounted on dowels, standing \~1/8" proud so each one is a hook for a necklace or bangle.
- The seaweed is zebrawood, tips turned outward to hang things.
- The barrel coral is elm — and it's a repurposed egg cup. I was turning a set of six, gave up when it got fiddly (and honestly, who wants six egg cups), so a survivor became a coral. The hollow makes a perfect ring dish.
- Base is a piece of curly maple.
- Finish: same urethane/mineral-spirits mix as the walnut boxes, wet-sanded 150→180→220→400 — done on the ground before the appliqués went on, with painter's tape masking the glue areas so nothing got sealed.
Inspiration is Pine Cay in the Turks & Caicos, where we've dove for a decade — so the reef's a real place.
#diy
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The fourth piece — the one a few of you asked to see last week (u/lavransson called it). It's my eldest's, and it isn't really a box at all: a standing display panel where every element holds jewelry.
How it went together:
- The current bands are the fun part — I laid a 1/4" bloodwood panel on a 1/4" maple panel and drove the stack freehand through the bandsaw with a 1/2" blade in a flowing curve. Both get cut in the same pass, so the bloodwood wave drops straight back into the maple with no fitting.
- The fish are just scroll-sawn and mounted on dowels, standing \~1/8" proud so each one is a hook for a necklace or bangle.
- The seaweed is zebrawood, tips turned outward to hang things.
- The barrel coral is elm — and it's a repurposed egg cup. I was turning a set of six, gave up when it got fiddly (and honestly, who wants six egg cups), so a survivor became a coral. The hollow makes a perfect ring dish.
- Base is a piece of curly maple.
- Finish: same urethane/mineral-spirits mix as the walnut boxes, wet-sanded 150→180→220→400 — done on the ground before the appliqués went on, with painter's tape masking the glue areas so nothing got sealed.
Inspiration is Pine Cay in the Turks & Caicos, where we've dove for a decade — so the reef's a real place.
#diy
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