To me boxes have a mystical quality… they are in themselves beautiful, and they contain treasures within. I love making them! Here is a recent one.
Made from red oak craft plywood, with fuchsia acrylic in the lid, and the inside bottom is lined with grey scuba suede.
This is gorgeous!!! The pattern is awesome!
Ohhh, that is a thing of beauty. And I share your fascination with boxes!
Beautiful! I love the red lining. How did you attach it?
That’s gorgeous! Love your hinges too.
Very elegant, and I love the way the pattern shows through the acrylic on the inside.
I’m going to assume this refers to the color of the suede, but never heard of that before. The box is fantastic, and the design on top is spectacular.
I enjoy making boxes too and yours is spectacular. Beautifully designed and well proportioned. The hinges look great too.
Ohhhhh, I love love love this!
That is gorgeous.
This is beautiful!
YO, that is really bad a$$, Love the patterns
Wow, that absolutely pops with the colored acrylic! Most excellent! 
That is absolutely gorgeous
Always nice to see the work of a fellow box fanatic. The wood /acrylic combination really shows well here. I really like the way the color grabs you when the lid is open.
How do you find the wooden hinges hold up?
Thank you so much for all of your comments, I really appreciate you taking the time to share them!
@djfb I attached it with wood glue, it is really strong but I’m wondering if it will fail at some point, I had CA glue but I’m terrible at using it, get it everywhere, I will try that if the wood glue fails! Or maybe some epoxy.
@pubultrastar it’s faux suede with an extra layer behind I think, it kind of has a springy feel to it!
@geek2nurse I thought it might bring back wonderful memories of Japan for you!
@shogun I find they are sturdy once in place, possibly because the craft plywood has an mdf core, when I first started using this type of hinges I broke a few trying to attach them, but I found once I started getting an accurate reading for the thickness of the material it really helped the with that and they seem to be okay - I would use metal hinges for high usage though to be on the safe side
Welcome to the forum!
@awebs76 You’ve got a treasure in a treasure, there. Absolutely gorgeous.
It’s stunning. The very small finger joints help to keep the delicacy of the entire box…that top being the ‘star’ of the show.
It’s beautiful!! The hinges are lovely, I’d just sit and look at it all day!
Wow, the Kumiko design by itself is spectacular but the acrylic underneath really makes it pop. Love it!
