Almost needed this Tissue box while working on it

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Believe it or not, when trying to buy some fairly unremarkable wood from an eBay seller, I was accidentally sent some top-notch figured maple. The seller and I came to terms so I could just keep the 'mistake' and avoid more shipping hassles.

Here is a gift-box made using similar techniques as the last tissue-box. For instance, gluing on the upper / lower trim pieces allowed me to (a.) effectively have more board dimension than I would have had, and (b.) cut dadoes with less fear of climb-cut incidents on my router table. I was just cutting rabbets on the edges of the maple and not dadoes.

I also had got some very figured walnut -- nice to look at from a distance, but full of grain-filling-needs if you look much closer.

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Nice 'Recovery':)