Wood Fly Boxes

Sorry for posting in the wrong thread. I didn't know if I'd be cluttering up the other one if I kept posting about design ideas and new boxes. Next one will go in the correct place.

kayakpicker said:

After that, tell me about the tarpon inlay; How’d you do that - hand carve, router template, cnc? and what’s the inlay material? definitely post the sapele when you’re done, really good stuff.

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Much appreciated. In the past, all my inlays have been done by hand. Creating the design in photoshop, printing it out and using an exacto knife to mark the outline. Then a variety of tiny dremel bits to carve out the material. (Shoutout to my dentist for letting me have a couple bits he was done using). All the inlay on this page was done by hand.
It is a very time consuming process and doesn't work as well for small lettering, so I recently purchased a small CNC router to help me. I used it for this box. The material used is crushed turquoise from a mine out in Arizona. A cheap bag of their floor sweepings will last me years. Sometimes, I'll use epoxy, but for thinner lines like this, I use CA glue to hold the material.

I went with Brusso hinges. They're expensive, but much better than anything else I can find. Their precision makes it easier to get proper alignment of the two box halves compared to a $0.75 pair from Lowes. Made up in NJ I believe.

PileatedPhotography, have you looked at sticky backed weather striping at the big box stores ?

the tiny hole at the end of the slit could be made with a small leather worker's hole punch

the slit could be made w/ a wood chisel

NICE INLAY WORK

and your WOOD WORKING aint bad neither ;-)

leon