Saturday, February 8, 2025

Yet Another Box

 

Here's another box I made, another presentation piece for somebody who's leaving a job for pastures new.


 The box is made from walnut. The two plaques are deep-etched in copper. The corners are just mitred, and reinforced by some decorative square-cut copper nails. The floor of the box is a piece of 4mm sapele plywood, and sitting loose inside there's a nice soft cushion for things to rest on comfortably.

The lid has two sets of magnets as a latch — they're strong enough that I can pick up the whole box by the lid and not have it fly open, but not so strong that I have to struggle to get the lid open.

The walnut is all out of one board, about five feet (1.5m) long. There's a considerable difference in colour from one end of the board to the other, which I found a bit odd.

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