My first finished thing, too - as finished as it's going to be for now, it's her birthday tomorrow.
The sides are bandsaw resawn pine from B&Q, planed smooth. The dovetails a mixture of hand sawn and using jigs I made for the bandsaw (I posted that before). The lid and base are sweet cherry, bought rough sawn - I resawed and then planed smooth and square and jointed them. I tried to follow Custard's guidance on the lining but used fabric (time was running short and it's what I had) and have nothing like his precision. It fits ok-ish but I might have to redo that sometime. A couple of applications of boiled linseed oil followed by polishing wax.
I learned a lot from doing it.
Some of the joints are ok, some needed filling. And I didn't realise you can get tinted filler so I used either white, or glue with sawdust. Neither looks good.
The 'rebate' is a bit of square wood, as is the one inside the box - both look a bit naff so I wouldn't do that again, but it works.
The lid cupped 1 / 1.5 mm or so front and rear - next time I'll get on with sealing the wood asap, that should help stop it?
Use the same wood throughout or use properly contrasting woods - they don't really work well together here.
