I made these two boxes for our next door neighbor.  She had a tree cut down in June and offered it to me.  I immediatley roughed out five boxes.  None of the blanks turned out well because of significant cracking in the lids.  I went ahead and made two boxes from the wooden blanks and there are inperfections in the lids which I do not like.  I filled the cracks with wood dust and coffee.  I gave her these two and threw away the remaining three blanks.  A lot of work for imperfections.