Wedding Ring Box Prototype

Someone I know very well is getting married soon and she asked me to make a box for the ring. So I'm going to be making a few prototypes to see which style will work best.

This is the first one. This one was made from left over ambrosia Maple from the Easter egg.

The only specified criteria is that the box lid is designed to pivot on a concealed pin and slide off to the side.

So after turning the outside profile of the box the lid is separated...

Next is to clean out the inside, in this design I've left a bump in the center of the box that is supposed to hold the ring. This should work well for this application as there's only going to be one ring in the box, but you'd need a much taller center spike for more rings.

After separating from the chuck this is what it looks like, it it actually resting on the block of Purple Heart wood that the final box will be made of.

The box is finished in the same high-gloss polyurethane. The pin for holding the box on actually works very well.




So here is the final product. What do you think?

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