This is a little pencil box I made for my wife. I had just finished lining our closet with cedar planks and had a few left over. I trimmed the tongue and groove off the sides and edge-glued a few of them together to make panels large enough for the top, bottom, and insert tray bottom.
The inside has a few dividers on which the insert tray sits. Because this is aromatic cedar, I did not want to put a finish on that would mask the aroma. Instead, I sanded to 1500 grit and left the surfaces otherwise unfinished. It feels as good as it smells.
Lessons learned on this one were to plan down the boards for the inserts and to use regular wood glue instead of CA glue. The inserts look a bit chunky by proportion which bugs me but my wife doesn’t mind. As for the CA glue, it sanded off the outside but on the inside corners it was more trouble to sand away that it was worth.
I didn’t end up making more of these but I still have some of those cedar planks in the wood bin that would make a nice pencil or jewelry box.