Sea turtle latch clasp

[evansd2]

I posted this on the main box post, but in case people miss it, I’ll cross-post here.

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…

shareturtle.zip (7.2 KB)

If you make one, be sure to post it

[bkressley]

Thanks for the share! Nice to see the design up close!

[cynd11]

Oh thank you! What a great closure for a box. Now to design one worthy of it…

[Xabbess]

Thank you so much for sharing your latch design. I will love incorporating that into something…and it certainly gives inspiration and some idea of ‘how-to’ for making my own designs, too.

[ptodd]

The most loved turtle! Thank you so much!

[rmaker1952]

Thank You for the share.

[morganstanfield]

Thanks so much for sharing. I really admired that little detail on your original post.