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How to make a box out of rest materials

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  This is a box for my niese's confirmation. It is made of rest materials from previous builds. It is made of birch and mahogany. The lid is a piece of old drawer, I got it from a friend. and I am ot 100% sure what it is. It was made by using a table saw and very few hand tools. It took about three evenings plus oiling to make this box.       So, what materials do I have...           Still measuring my rest materials and laying them out to have a good look.         This is how I got it through the planer. The piece itself was to thin so I put it on top of another board which have a little lip at the end. I think it is an IKEA shelf or something. I planed it to get all the old fiinsh of and get it flat.         I put a groove in the mahogany so the lid of the box can fit in it.  This is the edge of the lid of the box.        Cut them to size, and lay them on to tape.This makes it...