A few years ago a family friend, Steve, gave me a cut off of a piece of wood he works with making cabinets. Not just an ordinary piece of maple or oak but Zebra wood, which by the way was 2 inches thick, 10 inches wide and 24 inches long. It has a few flaws in it which wouldn't work for him but for me well this was gold. I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do with it and it sat there waiting to be worked on, until one day I heard that our friends, Dolly and Steve, became Grand Parents to a little girl named Rayna, and I thought maybe Dolly would like a box for keepsakes from baby Rayna and so I now had a purpose for the Zebra wood. Thus a gift of a block of wood to me is returned to them as a box for Dolly.
This box is 5 x 5 x 10 inches with a curly maple ascent.
The top is just a simple slider, but it works very well.
