I had some ribbon striped mahogany that someone gave me that I wanted to mess about with. The mahogany end grain is a real bitch as the wood is so soft I just kept getting tear out so this one I decided to turn with the grain. And since mahogany is not all that appealing I put a few colors of dye on it. Darker would have been better but the effect is pretty nice. And since the box needed some sort of adornment I figured a shotgun shell would be apropos for the Eastern Shore