Beall Pen Wizard Jig Box.

Boys and Girls,

Damn I feel out of place with all the great boxes posted here… however, being out of place is not new to me and I feel people should be permitted/obliged to post the simulants amongst the gems.

 

Going by the date of my pictures, the Beall Pen Wizard 

that this box was made for, never made it into marketable production, short of a few test cuts/engraves. 

These are the different engraves that could be achieved by the different gear configurations 

Though I did cut some replacement gears with my laser out of acrylic for some Yankee guy on Lumberjocks who also had a Wizard (I was a nice guy, once),

 

I’m guessing I must have tested it (?) as it was shipped, back in the days when shipping costs were realistic… no other happy snaps found.

 

Going by the earliest pictures I have of the box, I must have bought the jig before 2015 as the box was made to keep the dust off it… the scanned manuals date it to July 2012, back when I still believed I’ll be the next pen mogul of Aussieland… unfortunately, the primitives of Churchill soon allayed that dream.

 

Searched my directories and the only Beall hit I got was for SAKOF, so I can only assume I sketched it on paper or just winged it on the fly… 

 

mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa!

 

I’ve never been one to make fancy boxes, not due to lack of exotic woods but lack of ability, however, I did/do appreciate keeping dust off tools and the rats kept eating the original supplied cardboard box… so, I found that a basic pine box was cheaper than boarding a cat… though the rodents would have saved the cost of cans of Whiskas.

 

The first step was to make a base to screw the jig to, which then determined the size of the encompassing box. 

The sides were dovetailed using my Leigh D4R dovetailer and I may have imbibed in a few vinos as the dovetails were slightly staggered,

 

or they may have been even and looked staggered after the few vinos.

 

As can be seen from the picture, the box was decorated with an engraving of its resident’s name on a 3mm piece of pine,

as the front’s thickness would have pushed the boundaries of my laser’s capabilities. 

 

The base was doweled to house the spare configuration gears,

and a small box to house all the small router bits,

  

The new pine box was then introduced to my undertaker undertaking of amassing a collection of pine boxes,

Didn’t realise beforehand that the top handle wasn’t conducive to box stacking which buggered up my OCD organisation.

 

Sometime after I purchased my Foredom setup, 

J.R. (Mr. Beall) paired it up with the Pen Wizard and released a Foredom handpiece holder add on… and it goes without saying, I had to have one and attached it to the jig,

However, it added an extra 2” to the height of the jig… now if it was a metric 50mm, there probably would not have an issue, however that imperial rogue interfered with the fitment of the lid.

Added a 25mm jarrah strip around the perimeter of the base,

and again I had a fit that lid,

 

Finaly now, it’s the box that is gathering dust and not the jig,

 

 

 

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