Nice project! Great gift idea, and wonderful of you to share it with us in free designs! The layers work so well in that.
So the upper bottle brace floats on the bottle neck?
I know you are enjoying the power control that was missing from the other 'forge. Considering that limitation on the first unit, you sure managed a bunch of neat stuff!
(On a side note, I lust after that slat wall with the aluminum channel trim.)
Yay @cynd11…good eye! Good catch! ( I just found out that if I don’t use the ‘@’ symbol with your name…it spells cyanide)
^^Great laugh!
Eeeeeek!
Is it sacrilegious to use this for house warming gifts of wine? 
Thank you so much. I was going nuts trying to find it.
Yes. It’s a snug fit inside the liner but doesn’t wedge it apart. I do have to come up with a solution to keep the top from slipping off if you grab it just by the top. It’s tight but the bottom will slide out with a full bottle of wine in it.
Our sacramental wine is a bit sweet for me, but the folks don’t like drier wine. I have been known to go get a bottle from the sacristy if I need wine in an emergency, 
!st thing that comes to mind is the ‘snap fit’ design where a prong on the top or bottom would snap into a slot on the other half, and you depress the tab to unlock it. One of those on each side should do it. 
Should be able to retro fit that into opposite corners of the box to clear the bottle.
I love it! I think it’s a great idea to use engraving to essentially create an additional layer without having to use up more material. The lid sliding problem is one that I didn’t really get to thinking through. Your design at least gives you more time before they seperate.
You beat me to it! I’ve been really wanting to make some of these as well!
Looks great, you did a nice job on these!
What if you just had an insertable tab that went though lid and base (think peg?) you could make it a cross on either side of the window? This is with 2 pieces the tab on the blue piece goes ito the wine box and the white piece just goes through that slot in the blue piece. You’d have a “floating cross” just off the surface of the box. (although this quick 2 min sketch/idea would need to make the white piece stop from dropping throgh the slot - maybe mild taper.
This type of solution could go with a ribbon or cord for a handle.
I could also raise two of the sides up higher than the top and then have tabs with detents/dragon claws to slip into the side.
This is a lovely box, very impressive.
I stumbled over it from this blog I recently started following 
Wow. International fame! Thanks for the find. Glad to pass the inspiration on. I do want to get cracking on a smaller one that uses less material.
I’m very new to the design and files and I’m sure that its all things that come with time but maybe someone could enlighten me on this.
I click save as on the image files for this and it only gives me the option to save as a PNG, I open this in inkscape but cannot get it to trace bitmap to be able to get it into a readable format. what step is it that I am missing?
Welcome @t250marie92 to the community.
There are three vector design files as SVGs that you should be able to save as SVGs.
What computing platform are you using?
Doing a trace would be very hard to get the dimensions correct.
Get some cardboard and do it there first to get an understanding of the build.
Cathedral Wine Box.zip (11.5 KB)
Here are the three files zipped up.
You might want to try this one first. It is smaller.
This works much better and I thank you for that. I was trying to figure out how to take them from my trace and into groups and I found that It was taking forever to select each node and rework it, (again very new to this)
I am using inkscape for now I have also downloaded the free version of fusion 360 but seemed to get lost in that much faster than inkscape. This was much easier to work with. now the fu will be to change it up some!
I’m still curious as to how you weren’t able to save the files directly as an SVG since that is what they are natively posted as.
If you right click, can you see the option “open image in new tab”?
What browser are you using?
Here is my Chrome popup menu.
I have saved other posts on here directly as svg files but for some reason its only allowing the option of PNG or bitmap for me im using Internet Explorer
Are you right clicking on the file in the first post of the thread? The one shown immediately above is a PNG file. The one in the first post of the thread is the SVG file.
Really? Wow. That explains it. So much different functionality in the newer browsers. Does IE work with the Glowforge app?
