{"id":414,"date":"2025-12-20T23:35:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T04:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonbeard.com\/woodcockery\/?p=414"},"modified":"2025-12-20T23:37:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T04:37:01","slug":"efficient-lidded-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonbeard.com\/woodcockery\/index.php\/2025\/12\/20\/efficient-lidded-boxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Efficient Lidded Boxes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Trying to get efficient with both my tool usage and my wood usage. I like making boxes, but I don’t like carving out a deep pocket and wasting so much wood. Here, I’m seeing if I can get two additional boxes out of wood that would normally be chips. I cut concentric circles out of the thicker block for multiple box sides. On another block, appropriate sized lids are cut. Bottoms are cut out of yet another. I figured while playing around we might as well do some inlays, so I cut out pockets with the laser (similar to the runway serving board). Here though, the laser wasn’t doing a great job. With all that surface area, it was getting uneven depths because of variation in the wood. You can scrape it out, but then it gets messy. Instead, we fix it back on the cnc router and cut the inlay pockets that way. After some (a lot) of tweaking, I got the laser and router both cutting the same vector files the same size and working together pretty well. From there, it’s fit, glue, and sanding. I tried black-dyed glue thinking it would make the lines look since the intarsia would be sanded smooth. I think it does, but it bled into the lighter woods which I’m not a fan of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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