Custom Hand Made Musical Boxes

Featuring Reuge Musical Movements

also selling New, Vintage, and Antique music boxes

I started making wooden music boxes in 1980.  It all started as an idea for Holiday gift giving.  My initial boxes were a bit primitive.  Here is a picture of the early first editions.

As I made more boxes the designs and construction evolved into true craftmanship quality works of art.  All of my custom music boxes are made out of natural woods selected to enhance the sound from the musical movements, and are not stained unless otherwise requested by custom order .  The prefered finish is tung oil which offers a glossy sheen while maintaing the truely beautiful natural colors and textures of the different woods.    Each corner mitered cut and dowled for strength.  The hinges are wooden as my artistic goal was to not use any screws, nails, or any other metal fasteners in the box construction (machine or wood screws are used to hold the movement to the base of the box).  Wherever possible the inlay designs or natural wood grain designs will correlate to the music in the box.  For example one box made of mahogany had a beautiful rainbow pattern naturally in the grain of the wood, so the music - "Over the Rainbow".  Many boxes have wood inlays.  Some of the inlays were designed by my wife Cynthia.  Each box is numbered dated and initialed or signed with special numbering for those designed by Cynthia.  My music boxes feature the finest quality Swiss made musical movements manufactured bye "Reuge". 

In 2005 I began repairing and restoring antique and vintage musics boxes for sale. I also began to install vintage musical movements into various types of boxes.  I call these Vintage Customs.

Featured Item
Fred Zimbalist Music Box with Thorens AD30 disc playing movement

Price $900.00 - SOLD!

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I am now accepting orders for custom music boxes - please allow 8 weeks for delivery on custom orders.  For December holiday gift orders allow 12 weeks.  Please feel free to check out some of Cynthia's limited (200) edition designs.  Email your specific custom music box request to william@musicboxmaker.com .