I’ve been really getting into my box making. And, to my surprise and delight, they’re proving quite popular.
I initially made this one, for a pack of standard sized playing cards:
A pal at Shedders, Walter, liked it so much he commissioned one as a Xmas gift for his daughter. My first commission/sale!
More recently our pal Patrick has asked me to make him a plectrum box, in this style. I did that immediately upon his ‘commissioning’ me. I’m really chuffed with the results.
So that’s now two commissions/sales! And, amazingly, I have two more in the pipeline. The first two were guys: Walter and Pat. The second are gals: Ali and Sadie!
I’ve been using up the remainders and off-cuts from previous box making projects in the last few days, to make a few smaller boxes, some quite like Pat’s plectrum box. Others a bit different.
In this latter category are my first boxes using more of my much beloved bog oak. This stuff – for which I must thank fellow Shedder Clem – is quite interesting, different, and indeed harder to work with.
*As the keen eyed may spot, this little ‘un has several key changes in design: the herringbones are oriented horizontally, not vertically (more like road sign chevrons); the lid and base are ‘butt jointed’, or aligned horizontally.