Plain Veritas “Router Plane” Box.

Boys and Girls,

It’s not that I still have a forest of MDF trees in my back yard as Splinter alludes to… since my last post was a puzzle, this is a testament to one of my MDF projects I posted at LJ back in April , 2019 and since that MDF revelation, my forest has been diminishing at an exponential rate.  Consequently I decided to bring this across before those few trees fail to survive in an arid Churchill climate. 

 

3DW downloadable model,

Not being a puzzle, no A4 PDF solution is available… sorry.

 

 

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Boys and Girls,

 

It's nearly as hard accepting being 70 as forgetting about my last 69.  Looks like I've developed another growth ring and accompanying that was a selection of Veritas Router Plane blades,

I've had the plane.

for some months now (it was a Chrissy prezzie), but with the extra blades I wasn't happy with them playing footsies with each other in the original cardboard box.

 

In the past, I used to make "fancy" tool boxes out of solid timber (primarily pine),

however, for this I thought a simple laser cut MDF box will suffice.

 

Off the laser, the top and sides fit together like a jigsaw and I attempted to see how many clamps the CA glue could hold,

the top was laser engraved using the Pinewood font,

Using my dowel aligned laminating technique, for the base and the bit holders, the box rolled off the production line, 

 

glued,

tested for fit,

tunged,

and wipe-on-polied… rebelliously with a brush,

 Couldn't maintain keeping it plain and seeing how it was a plane (which sees the ground green… DOH!), flock it… I decided not to flock it red,

Finally it was ready to get hidden in the LBD storage system… 

Closeup view,

distant view,

 

I can only surmise that for the odd few of you out there that don't have a laser, don't waste time reading this.

For those that have a laser, may I suggest you try making it out of solid timber.

 

OOPS! Nearly forgot, anyone not interested in the SketchUp model, please don't download this.

  

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