I made this box for my lovely wife for Xmas. I mentioned it a last week, but I had forgot to take a picture before wrapping. Let's just say she was totally shocked and excited ( Santa Clause had a good night ).
Anyways, the box is made from Wenge, the drawer fronts are Curly Maple, the rest of the drawers were Baltic Birch. The balls are wood with 24kt gold leaf. The finish it one coat of clear lacquer then sanded smooth (filled in grain), three coats of wipe on satin poly and then a good coat of med. brown Bri-wax and buffed to a polish. I lined the drawer with some black felt, may change that to crushed velvet some day but I didn't have any handy.
I really like how it turned out. Man is it heavy. I figured I have around $100 plus in wood in it (that Wenge and C. maple sure is expensive around these parts).