Wooden Jewelry Boxes

There are a myriad of wooden jewelry boxes available online for shoppers to consider when the desire to buy something a little special or unusual is hard to resist. In addition, carved jewelry boxes are also part of the varied options that consumers will have facing them when making the decision to purchase these specialty items. Prices and sizes vary, depending on the manufacturer and whether or not they are constructed and carved by machine or hand. These gifts are perfect for both men and women and will provide years of useful and enjoyable storage space for various personal items. While online vendors that sell these products are just a few clicks away, the following information might prove valuable before beginning the window shopping experience.

Wooden jewelry boxes are made with a variety of common and exotic woods. The more common woods would include cherry, pine, cedar, walnut, oak, redwood and mahogany. Storage units made with these more common woods would be less expensive and more common on websites offering these items. However, there are a number of exotic woods that are used to make high end wooden jewelry boxes and carved jewelry boxes. These exotic woods would include cocobolo from Central America, Makassar ebony from Indian and Ceylon, wenge from West Africa, zebrawood from Africa, tiger maple, olive ash, rosewood, tamo ash and bubinga. Units that are made from these very exotic woods are well over five hundred dollars, many of them coming close to one thousand dollars because of the rarity of materials. As the rarity of materials rises, so does the craftsmanship of the products, many of them featuring book matching, which is a term used to describe the attempt to make all sides of a box in balance with one another aesthetically. Dovetail and chevron joints are often used in these high end accessory storage units as well as modern adhesives.

For the more budget minded, the manufactured line of wooden jewelry boxes can provide an excellent resource for many choices and options. Boxes designed for women can come in painted units of many colors offering a large array of different drawer numbers, storage bins and side pull outs for hanging necklaces. Many of these manufactured units can be included in the carved jewelry boxes category with flowers and landscapes and children carved into the tops and sides. In addition, many of the fashion accessory storage units can have built in picture frames for children's or grandchildren's pictures. These lower end boxes are usually made of painted pine, maple, oak or birch and stained cherry or walnut in various depths of stain shading. Of course many of these beautiful pieces can include the ability to play music, and many of these same boxes can offer the choice of a number of tunes played. The designs of these fashion accessory storage units can be Contemporary, Art Deco, Victorian, Elizabethan or Classic, and often look like very miniature models of fine bedroom furniture.

A search for carved jewelry boxes online brings up possibilities from woodcarvers in the Ukraine, Alaska, Thailand, the Middle East, Poland and Russia as well as other locations. Many of these carved boxes are not necessarily labeled as jewelry boxes, and therefore lacking a protective lining, but are very inexpensive, many for under ten dollars. One site offers a hand carved jewelry box of the Russian church, St. Basil's Cathedral for a little more than thirty one dollars. The handcrafted products from the Ukraine are also encrusted with colored glass, beads and metal to give them a distinctive style and look. Carved jewelry boxes from Thailand and the Far East include mosaics on the lids made of various gemstones. "For we know that, if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." (II Corinthians 5:1)

Giving a fashion accessory storage unit as a gift to a man can be tricky because many men have little or no jewelry to place in them. Fewer men wear watches because of cell phones, and even fewer men wear French cuffed shirts requiring cufflinks. Yet the heart of a woman is often bent on giving a gift that she herself would like to receive, and that would include a fancy place to store her jewelry. For a man to give one of these beautiful gifts to a woman is a no brainer. It would be a gift instantly appreciated and used. However, if a woman gives a man a beautiful storage unit, she should probably expect it to eventually end up with golf balls, nuts and bolts, an old air freshener from the car, a pen that doesn't work anymore, and a dozen other items that are definitely not items of the fashion accessory genre. But that's ok, because they are items that he values enough not to throw away.

These wooden jewelry boxes are items that might be considered heirlooms in many families. Passing something on as personal as a small jewelry box that had sat on someone's dresser for decades can be rather moving if the receiver chooses to be pensive about the experience. For in that little manufactured container were small items that the loved one felt comfortable wearing or having in his/her pocket. At some point, the box contained reminders of good times and bad times, times of joy and times of sorrow. But buying a gift of this sort may have more of a life than one might ever realize on the day of purchase.

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