hi I received my glow forge today wooooo there were a few delays but its here and its amazing I need to make some boxes with a sliding lid for a toy show next week
any help would be great im completely new to this so im not sure how all this works
carl
So search for “Slide Box” in Free Laser Designs and you’ll see some cool stuff like this:
Here’s the pattern for the Living Hinge Pencil Box I posted over in Made on a Glowforge. It’s sized for 1/8" plywood – the ones in that post were both cut from Baltic birch.
The engraved pattern shown in the photos isn’t included, since I stole it from Pinterest.
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I was more focused on building than taking photos, but hopefully I got enough build details to let folks get one assembled.
The key to making it work is in the pre-assem…
Make sure to size it up to an appropriate size - the one pictured was sized up to about 8 inches using the eyeball method in the Glowforge app. [IMG_20181229_1542267] [IMG_20181229_1542455] [IMG_20181229_1543063] [slideboxpencils]
So I posted this some time ago.
Now that I have a glowforge, I can make it myself. I generated the finger jointed box here…
Then went to Illustrator to remove the top row of fingers for the sides and al of them for the top. Then started adjusting the top and added the raster shapes for the grooves.
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I used medium maple plywood and adjusted the engrave to make two passes to get the correct depth.
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I had to run a piece of scrap through each groove…
Hopefully those will get you going.
Good luck and have fun!
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thank you Hansepe!
I will go and take a look hopefully I will be able to get them done in time if not im going to have fun trying
really appreciate the help thank you
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