If you’ve been at ASMBLY at all in February you surely saw me at work on this ring box, and so, so many people in the community helped me out with advice, encouragement, and tool help. I’m so grateful to have been able to work on it here; I learned so many new skills and used four out of our six areas in its completion. It was about a month of physical work, plus 2 months of design, most of which went out the window when the physical work began. The only part I didn’t make myself on this project is the hinges. I’m extremely proud of it
Exterior:
Laser-etched rosewood with gilding wax fill.
Four corner Grain Match with brass splined miters, brass and rosewood feet:
Interior:
Maple ring tray with laser burnout velvet ring rolls
For our fifth anniversary last year, I gave my partner a ring and told them I wanted to make it a tradition that every five anniversaries I would get them another ring. I made this box to enshrine that tradition and hold all the rings that I will give them over the course of our lives. It has a love letter compartment and a ring tray with spaces for their engagement ring and mine (we’re lucky to wear similar ring sizes, so we’ll probably sometimes wear each other’s rings), our wedding bands, and (very, very optimistically) 70 years worth of anniversary rings. I used the box to present them with their engagement ring, and it had exactly the effect I was hoping for!
