Thread: Pen Boxes

Thinking outside the box here (pun intended!!!!) could thick bamboo be used, thin slice off the top length ways and ends filled with 'something'. Hinging could be leather glued inside end fill???

This might give a quick 'box' if you could get hold of the bamboo size required.

Just a thought, not a classy box necessarily, but certainly novel!!

JD

Hi guys,I've been away for a couple of days.
You got some great ideas there.
Toni,your BS box is a great one!!,,and the bamboo too.
It'ld be nice ,for me anyway,if I could make my own,for nice pens,and it adds something to the pen.
Some people I gave/sold pens to won't use them,lol.They say they're afraid they'll loose them.
I told them if they did,I can make another one,lol.
I saw you speaking about pictures,I was trying to make a websire a few weeks ago,I had a 30 day free trial offer,but it ran out,,,,and,anyway,I downloaded a thing called "easy thumbnails",,it make pics smaller so they'ld fit on a website.
Don't know if that'ld be any good to yee.
I might try to get a close up look at some of the pen boxes for sale on the web,and try and see how they hinge them.Not that I want to take business from anyone making them,just for my own use,also,if I made my own pen box for a certain pen,I could make the woods match,or compliment each other.
Anyway,talk to you later,Steve.

Originally Posted by NewLondon88

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Found it: http://sitereportcard.com/imagereducer.php Does GIF, JPG, & PNG. Seemed pretty painless: no bells, whistles, phone home, music or movies IIRC. Provides about 7 examples at varying levels of compression. One man's fish is another man's poisson, of course.

Joe

Hi all
I have been making boxes for most of my pen from the timber the pen is made from Pen And Pencil sets or single pen .
2 Pieces 180 x55 x 10 and 2 x 5mm Barrel Hinges
I have a jig for grooving both pieces another jig for drilling for the barrel hinges
the back of the box is bevelled on the router table to allow the box to open
I could put a step x step method up if anyone was interesred.
I tried to post a picture,it said it was too large ,but it has been posted before
I have posted pictures of the boxes before on the Forum
Regards D M

Go for it DM Always someone looking for help
nothing ventured etc
Pete

Originally Posted by joe greiner

Found it: http://sitereportcard.com/imagereducer.php Does GIF, JPG, & PNG. Seemed pretty painless: no bells, whistles, phone home, music or movies IIRC. Provides about 7 examples at varying levels of compression. One man's fish is another man's poisson, of course.
Joe

True enough. I like it for what it does. If I need anything more, I fire up
Photoshop, which I've been using for just as long.

There are times when you need that big 147 blade Swiss Army Knife.
Other times, the toothpick will do

If you want to make your pen boxes out of wood, then ignore the rest of this...

I recently went through the exercise of trying to find a 'nice' way to present some pens, and ended up using CD gift boxes.

http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com...4&postcount=13

Cheers,
Andrew

here is a pen box i have made out of, W.A Sheoak,5mm barrel hinges,dovetail joints.. 1 pen sheoak,the other sheoak,jarrah,black butt and paper bark...the trick is dont make lid to high or the pens will fall out.dont make recess to deep for the pens to sit in

nice

Donna

nice box and nice pens bosshogg.