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Large Wood Jewelry Boxes with the Rare Bird's Eye Maple
Extra large jewelry boxes are for you if you have an extensive and expensive collection of precious jewelry and trinkets. Considering the monetary and aesthetic value of the contents of the box, you may want to go in for a box that is also made of expensive and rare wood, and adorned with intricate handcrafts like marquetry, and other embellishments.
Jewelry boxes are made using several types of wood. You will be able to get a fairly good and pricey looking box made with rubber wood or some other locally available wood but with exquisite marquetry work done on it using rare burlwood and veneers. A rare and very expensive wood, the Bird's Eye Maple, is quite often used in marquetry to add charm to an otherwise dull looking box.
The Bird’s Eye Maple is not a separate wood in its own right but rather an aberrant but natural phenomenon of the Hard Sugar Maple (Acer suchrum). The patterns are visually appealing as they remind you of swirling birds' eyes. It may be mistaken for a burl if not for the absence of the knots that are common to burlwood.
It grows in the North American North East and its distinctive feature, the swirling bird's eyes, are placed about a centimeter apart with a diameter of about 3 to 5 mm. It is mostly light in color and has a very porous texture. The Bird’s Eye Maple veneer is extremely delicate and has a gloss finish that makes it very attractive for making jewelry boxes.
The divergent patterns make it quite difficult to work with the Bird's Eye Maple as cutting and carving can be quite tiresome. It is only major advances in technology that saved it from disappearing totally from the scene; with newer more user friendly machines, it became easier to work with this exotic wood. Carpenters in earlier times, are said to have thrown the Bird's Eye Maple into the flames as firewood as they just couldn't carve it the way they wanted to! Now this amazing wood is used to produce evocative designs in marquetry that makes the jewelry box exceptional to look at .
It looks really elegant and gives the box an air of unparalleled sophistication. So choosing a wooden box with intricate marquetry work with Birds Eye Maple done on it would be the best thing you could do for your precious jewelry. You never know, it may turn out to be more beautiful than your jewelry!
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