This:
Cool!
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Yes, incredibly pleasing.
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Think I need a set of those. 
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Beautiful,
Stacking several boxes could make an incredibly stunning hobby caddy, sewing kit or tool box.
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Just don’t stand on them… because the bottoms are glued on.
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I would have thought straight down but have been wrong before, though it is that lateral (like angle iron) stability of the joint I would be looking for like someone silly enough to try and force a 6,75 inch thing in the middle or have them packed upon their sides and then put a heavy load on the box above trying to force them to a parallelogram. All odd or rare events but for a thing of beauty to last a thousand years odd and rare events happen. we already know termites would break their teeth on it 
A set of trays that awesome should provide joy for a thousand years.
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Funny that you bring this up:
I screwed one of these trays up and glued a side in upside down. I hadn’t put the base in yet and decided that the entire thing was blown, so I had nothing to lose by trying to force the corners apart. The glue was titebond classic and it was probably 45 minutes set — maybe not fully cured but pretty well set.
It took a good bit of force to get the joints apart. Amazingly the wood was undamaged in the process. I think I got lucky, if I’d waited longer or only noticed after I’d glued the base in I think I’d never have gotten it apart without a hammer and splintered wood.
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What an awesome use of the GF laser! Really nice and the wenge and canary look great together!!
I didn’t see in your notes if you used the laser to cut a bottom groove, or if the bottoms are glued right to the sides. Just curious, but man they look super cool!
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I was not all that impressed by heavy use of fingers till I experimented with them in that big box, now even the scrap gets used to make strong tools. Those things that I made before discovering how useful they were have frequently broken when under strain.
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Opposite sides upside down actually sounds pretty cool also.
That was actually the original design intent, to make adjacent corners upside down from each other. The sides would look like diagonal elements, the end result was to make a tray that looked like a slice of a diagonal column of contrasting woods, if you can imagine it.
In the end I went with the more traditional symmetry, but it was a near thing.
Something like this:
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This is incredible.
I wonder if instead of the bump/sand solution, you took the two lines that created the corner, cut them, and extended each one past the corner? That way it wouldn’t slow down to round the corner… I’ll have to try that some time.
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