A simple little dovetailed box made from birch firewood. I use a scrubplane and a jackplane to flatten one side of, before riving off a plank using a chisel. Since the pieces are short, the jackplane is used to square up the sides. I was lucky to find som really straight pieces with very even grain. When rived, the grain stays parallel to the sides, making it very easy to plane in any direction.

I use a shop made shooting board with a Veritas shooting plane to square the ends of the boards.

The dovetails are cut with a progressive pitch Dovetail saw from Lie Nielsen. It is filed 16ppi and progressively decreases to 9ppi.
The waste is removed using a fret saw (often called a Jewelers saw)
The tails and pins are refined using chisels.

I finished it with some shellac, but it turned out way too yellow. I have since removed and reapplied the finish. This time with a lighter shellac.

No machines or power tools were used for this project :-)

Hope you like it.

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Tools used:
Scrubplane
Jackplane
Blockplane
Shootingplane
Chisels
Marking gauge
Dovetail saw
Crosscut saw
Fret saw
Mallet
Dovetail marker