Keepsake Boxes with Miters and Corner Keys

Made a couple of keepsake boxes, all with mitered joinery and reinforced with keys on the corners. Over time I’ve kept and saved various pieces of weird woods, with knots, burls etc to use them eventually for lids, and also some interesting veneers, bird’s eye maple, grey stained oak etc that I glue them on plywood to make the lids. Some boxes are for sale on my store here A great book for inspiration and techniques is Box Making Basics, David Freedman - Wood: walnut, oak, maple, ash Finish: danish oil Tools used in this video plus others I use and recommend: • Veritas Low Angle Smoothing Plane - • Japanese Planes - (58mm), (65mm) • Dozuki Saw - • Flush Cut Saw - • Azebiki Saw - • All my saws - • Min