COREY FARR

I glued it up as a closed box, then cut the lid off on the table saw with a high fence. Tear-out was a concern but using blocks on the underside of the cut, and a line of masking tape along the inside of the box helped to minimize it. 

I carefully fit the aromatic cedar (not salvaged) to the inside of the box and tapered it from bottom to top just enough so that the top would go on easy and snug up as it seated. 

The wood for the top, bottom and sides came from the board I salvaged in Glen Park, and the legs and handles came from another board, bought from a salvage yard, thus the different shades.

I eased the edge along the sides a fair amount to make that horizontal line more pronounced, and left the edges on the leg cuts relatively hard to accent the vertical lines. 

The top and bottom were bookmatched just to make the pieces wide enough, although with the perfectly quartersawn grain it only shows as two slightly darker symmetrical stripes.

I oriented the naturally curving grain to work with the coves on the legs to soften the boxy shape.

I used a wipe-on oil varnish blend on the outside, followed by wax, and left the inside unfinished so the aromatic cedar could do its work. I call it a jewelry chest just because of the size; as is sometimes the case with my designs, it was made without a prescribed end-use in mind.