Cigar Boxes

[lmware916]

Has anyone done cigar box Engraving yet?

[rbtdanforth]

@lmware916

cigar box Engraving

I made my own cigar boxes and engraved them. Does that count?
This is the only picture I can easily find…

[randy.cohen]

Now that’s an idea I hadn’t thought of! I smoke cigars. I have one humidor that has a marble inlay for the top (and another chunk in the bottom for weight), and another that’s (I think) Zebra wood. Both lids are engravable now you mention it!

[marmak3261]

I have been thinking about this for quite a while. I even have the hinges and little magnets for closing the lid. I did a gift box for a friend using Proofgrade cherry. It was a simple one full box that fits over an inner box. I engraved his name on a split letter with a fancy font for the cover.

I have been working on a common ring size and cigar length design to engrave on the bottom of a box. Almost done with it.

[lmware916]

Nice. Please share once its complete so we can see.

Lamar M. Ware

[evansd2]

Darice makes unfinished “cigar boxes”, they are very inexpensive.

Gift box for my Pisces sister

A quick writeup on another gift box. This one started from a prefab box (Darice unfinished cigar box), and went through a few finishing stages. [image] (Boooorrriiiinnnnnggggg zzzzzz) First up, the engrave. I made a stylized Pisces symbol out of the fish and surrounded them with a wave border. I filled in the waves with a textured background to give the vector shapes some variation in the engrave. (engraved with variable power setting turned on) The box fit nicely in the GF and required n…

Darice 9180-06 Unfinished Cigar Box, 8.375"x8.125"x1.75" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001767QPS

[marmak3261]

Believe it our not. It’s been all finished except for the weeding. It’s a full sheet with lots of little stuff to weed. Need to just take the gorilla tape to it. Once I have it weeded, I’ll post the pic of the finished product and the design in the free laser designs.