If you enjoyed Creating Beautiful Boxes With Inlay Techniques, you will love Simply Beautiful Boxes. With 250 color photos and drawings to richly illustrate 15 unique and beautiful jewelry boxes, there is much to interest and inspire woodworkers of all levels of expertise. Simply Beautiful Boxes also illustrates more inlay techniques! If you love wood, you will find pleasure in these projects.

Jewelry boxes can be very simple or as complicated as a large piece of furniture. Some of these can be done with a limited selection of tools while others are complicated enough to keep a more experienced woodworker interested and satisfied.

Feel free to make changes and personalize these designs. Choose woods that have meaning for you and let your selection of materials become part of your adventure in woodworking. You may wish to use this book to begin discussions with a loved one to guide you in making a box of your own design that tells a more personal story of loving relationship. If you are a beginner, you may want to start with some of the simpler projects and work your way toward more complicated boxes as your skills develop.

My own woodworking is a story about relationship with wood, a love for grain, color,texture and scent. A love also for the forest and wild things that live there and toward which I feel a reverence and a desire to protect. I hope my efforts on these pages will be useful to you and that the story my woodworking tells may help you to better understand and tell your own.

There is a saying that the teacher's work is completed when his students surpass him. Some of you will accept the challenge and opportunity that wood offers of reaching toward excellence, personal expression and growth. It is you for whom I write in the knowledge that you will surpass me.

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