Japanese Style Pencil Case Build Process
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Posted 24th October 2024
The next things I need to think about are the top pieces. These sit on top of the sides and ends. Traditionally they would be held in place with glue and nails. While I'm going to use glue, I'd like to replace the nails with some form of joinery. This is the best idea I've come up with so far, but I'm certainly open to ideas:
That CAD model only considers the join between the sides of the box and the components that are attached to the sides. There's also the lid, which is (unsurprisingly) a separate assembly:
The lid is made up of four pieces: a the main lid "sheet" and three blocks that have the grain at 90° to the base. The joint between the wenge and ash cross-pieces on the right-hand side will just be glue (the wenge piece is just decorative - I could have just made the lid out of three bits of ash). Another view of the lid:
At the moment I'm not sure what to do about joining the cross pieces to the lid "sheet". Again, traditionally this would have been done with nails but I'm not going to do that. The only thought I've had so far is to put a couple of (wenge?) dowels through each cross piece. If I do that, it might look better to also have similar dowels going through the ones attached to the body (possibly just dowels into blind holes so they're purely aesthetic).
I'd welcome any ideas.
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