Pistachio Tapered Dovetailed Lidded Keepsake Boxes

I came back from the sawmill with 2 more slabs of pistachio and the ends were cracked but I did not want to throw them away so I decided to make a couple more boxes for the park craft sale in March. I started by filling them with black epoxy, then I cut the rectangular pieces at 3 degrees on the table saw and then cut the dovetails in on the router table. After the dovetails were fitted, I laid out the center and glued on a a spigot on the top and bottom and turned them round and sanded and finished the sides on the lathe with EEE and Shellawax. Then the inside  pocket was turned on the bottom and the inside was finished the same way. I turned a mortise on the inside of the tops to hold them from the inside to turn off the top spigots and finish the tops. The bottom spigots were turned off using  jam chucks.

One finished at  4" x 1 1/4" and the other is 5" x 1" high. They each of 2  rare earth magnets for a positive closure.

All the surfaces were finished using EEE and Shellawax