Plywood pencil box

[Phantom Scroller]

Had a load of 1/2" thick offcuts of ply and thought I'd make some pencil boxes 4 3/4" x 3 1/4" with a nice piece of teak for the base the bird scrolling make a rubbish ply look good. Roly

[Scrolling Steve]

Neat !...A great use for the wood !

[justdraftn]

35 minutes ago, Phantom Scroller said:

Had a load of 1/2" thick offcuts of ply and thought I'd make some pencil boxes 4 3/4" x 3 1/4" with a nice piece of teak for the base the bird scrolling make a rubbish ply look good. Roly

I like this a lot.  I'm playing w/this idea to embellish band saw boxes.

[new2woodwrk]

Nice stuff - I like using/re-purposing stuff as well - boxes on my list LOL

[meflick]

Beautiful project Roly.  Anyone would be pleased to have that box grace their desk.  Thanks for sharing.

[Phantom Scroller]

4 hours ago, justdraftn said:

I like this a lot.  I'm playing w/this idea to embellish band saw boxes.

Good idea loads of bird patterns on the net resize and your away I might make a couple more and see how they sell at my next show. Roly

[rjR]

Neat boxes!

 

Great RESCUE too!

[Dave Monk]

Great use of scraps.

[amazingkevin]

I gotta hand it to you .You made lemonade out of lemons!

[jollyred]

Like the idea of reusing scrap plywood.  I might try this.  I wonder if it would be worthwhile to get some self stick edging veneer and put it around the top?  That would hide the raw edge of the plywood and make it more like solid wood.

[GPscroller]

Good thinking Roly, looks great.

Jeff

[wombatie]

Looks good Roly.  Well done.

Marg

[Phantom Scroller]

5 hours ago, jollyred said:

Like the idea of reusing scrap plywood.  I might try this.  I wonder if it would be worthwhile to get some self stick edging veneer and put it around the top?  That would hide the raw edge of the plywood and make it more like solid wood.

Good point the iron on stuff got some of that somewhere. Roly

[Phantom Scroller]

Thanks all I'll have to make some more rubbish plywood bits. haa haaa you lot rock!  Roly

[blights69]

2 hours ago, Phantom Scroller said:

Thanks all I'll have to make some more rubbish plywood bits. haa haaa you lot rock!  Roly

Hey one mans rubbish is another mans gold or as me ol man used to tell me get in there boy one mans S*** is another mans treasure always wondered if he meant that or used it as an encouragement to get me in the rubbish pile while he waited for me to pass out the so called gold  Great idea Roly and I am sure they will sell rather well at a sale .

[DWSUDEKUM]

Very nicely done. I like that a lot.  Thanks for sharing this with us.

 

DW

[Gordster]

Great job on these Roly.and a fantastic idea....sometimes I think you are border line genius...thanks for idea. 

[newfie]

Nice work Roly thanks for sharing 

[bobscroll]

Great idea Roly! Good job there! Thank you for showing,

Bob 

[Brianr24]

Very nice 

[oldhudson]

Good idea and great use of cut-offs. Is the same image on all 4 sides? Are the corners mitered, butt joint or something else? Certainly a fine substitute for the 'coffee mugs' that occupy most desk tops. 

[Phantom Scroller]

14 minutes ago, oldhudson said:

Good idea and great use of cut-offs. Is the same image on all 4 sides? Are the corners mitered, butt joint or something else? Certainly a fine substitute for the 'coffee mugs' that occupy most desk tops. 

The birds are on the front only and the other two I made today have splines of dark mahogany in the mitred joints I used the old trick of sticking the four sides on tape then gluing the joints then used my favourite nail gun.  I could go over the top and put them on all four sides but they are ply boxes  Perhaps I might make some in a hardwood and spend a bit more time on them with dovetails joints.  Roly

[Phantom Scroller]

7 hours ago, blights69 said:

Hey one mans rubbish is another mans gold or as me ol man used to tell me get in there boy one mans S*** is another mans treasure always wondered if he meant that or used it as an encouragement to get me in the rubbish pile while he waited for me to pass out the so called gold  Great idea Roly and I am sure they will sell rather well at a sale .

Haa haa my ol man used to say get out from under my feet. I can't think why after all I learned a lot of my skills from him. Roly

[daveww1]

very nice, great use of scraps