Japanese Style Pencil Case

This pencil-case sized box is my take on a Japanese toolbox. The toolboxes are typically made with extremely simple construction, relying on nails to hold everything together. I didn't want to use nails as I was more interested in practising joinery techniques.

The lighter coloured wood is ash (which had a lot of changing grain direction and was pain to plane); the darker wood is wenge, which was very nice to work with. The (4 mm diameter) dowels were made using my home-made wood turning lathe and a dowel plate.

I wrote up the process of building the box as I went along; you can read all about it on the 12-page build log.

3D Model

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