There is a bit of a sad back story to this box.
A very good friend died suddenly on the Sunday of the August bank holiday weekend last year.
Without going off at a tangent don’t have a heart attack on a weekend and particularly not a bank holiday one as great though the NHS are your chances of survival are significantly lower.
His wife was tidying out the garage and laughing about all the stuff he’d kept when I spotted and rescued a piece of mahogany that was heading for a bonfire. It didn’t look like anything special but a couple of weeks ago I cleaned it up and found a rather attractive flame pattern.
Once combined with some Bubinga veneer, feather inlay and Rosewood banding it’s made a rather nice jewellery box for Pete’s daughter.
I’ve made and gifted plenty of boxes but this is the only one that’s brought a tear to the eye!