A box of silky and beech

Before going under the knife I made a small box for my lovely wife using some leftover Australian silky oak and New Zealand red beech.

 Hand cutting the dovetails and sanding the finished box put paid to any ideas of further woodworking projects until I can sort out the whole pain-in-the-ass hand issue.  An ass hand you say?  Why, that's a cross between a sawhorse and a hand plane of course.  Good for not much.