I make popup cards and was looking for a good box for storage and transportation to craft fairs. Then I remembered the Glowforge and the 1/4” maple ply I had sitting around. It’s a simple box overall but I was thrilled that fir the first time I didn’t need any glue, including for the inlay logo on the top.
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Very nicely done.
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Looks good!
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Nice clean lines!
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Thank you. This is an integrated hinge, one with the loops to either side of the back with the discs that rotate inside. It took a lot of experimentation to get the settings on those to allow a full clean close. Still trying to understand why but at least I know that when it wasn’t quite shutting it was that mechanism.
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Lovely work. Glad it turned out so well
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Do you have photos? I have played a lot with different varieties of hinges and the need to have some of the box beyond the rotation point of the hinges is a tough thing to avoid. Doable but the central design issue.
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What is your website? Did you ever design a Westie card?
It’s paperpups.com and no Westie yet. It’s a long list of breeds to go 
The hinge does stick out, but I can live with that. My issue was that a very small shift in where the tabs sit in that circle made a HUGE difference in the rotation. Took about 6 separate slightly different prints to hit the sweet spot.
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Yup! That was the first I tried as it was the way of boxes.py. The worst I found was that the bit that was part of the back was very weak and my choice of wood at that time was even weaker. I tried replacing them with some bamboo kabob sticks that were about the same cross-section but eventually gave up that style.
Boxes.py had a second style that sat on the outside of the back that were pretty clunky but with a bit of reworking and using 1/8 Baltic birch (in quarter-inch wood) they could be half normal size and with round kabob sticks for hinges and most of it in the inside I got this…
the birch was very strong but still not as invisible as I would have liked.
After a bunch of experiments, I was able to put the hinges entirely on the inside so that closed there was no evidence of hinges at all…
I have been working on one that has several points of rotation and things moving in slots such as you find on a fishing tackle box but have not built it yet.
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