Kinda basic for past owners but if you’ve never assembled tight fit boxes before I made a looser fit one as an easy way to just show how I would recommend assembling to prevent chips in the wood.
If your experienced with 3d designs or you don’t like videos this probably isn’t for you and that’s ok too, just thought I’d share some tips…
One question: Have you found any benefit of using a rubber-tipped hammer vs. a rubber mallet? I have the rubber mallet for garden stuff and it’s been…fine? for assembling stuff, but I’m curious if it’d be worth it to get a rubber-tipped hammer as well.
Thanks! Rubber tip hammer works great for when there is a tighter area to hit when you need it more focused on a certain point but a rubber tip mallet works well too but covers a bigger surface area so can’t get into some areas quite as well. I have both but you can probably get away using just one or another in a pinch for any project really.
Hi. Thank you for the information. How do change the kerf (?) …sorry not familiar with the lingo. Is there a special software you use to design your boxes? The only thing I use is Inkscape and then upload to GF.
Well there is a lot to unpack there for kerf, it’s basically the amount of extra material that get erased from the laser that needs to be manually edited for with your program in your case inkscape. I have kind of a starter series of short videos and one of the videos goes pretty indepth about kerf. You will want to watch the whole series in order thought to get the under standing of editing into the kerf section down the line. Here’s the link to the series: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA6TGCGiz_3Bw1NgmkK6UqKWBhHQG9Fpe