Which Boxmaker can create this joint?

[narmin]

I made this box when we first got our Glowforge and have forgotten which box maker I had used to create this joint. I want to make another one and for the life of me cannot remember where and how I made it. Have searched for it - but cannot figure it out. Anyone come across this type of a joint or know how I can recreate it (besides designing from scratch)?

[dklgood]

I have moved this to Everything Else as it is not something that should generate a support ticket which is what happens when you post in Problems and Support. Can you state which box making sites you have rule out so we don’t recreate the effort?

[deirdrebeth]

Any chance the file has any sort of watermark in it? Or that you created the extra lines to cut the double?

I’ve never seen that, but it looks cool!

[evansd2]

I haven’t seen a generator that makes joints like that, but it would be pretty easy to replicate by starting with a box from a generator and then subtracting chunks out of the tabs where you want them. If you’re in a hurry, that’s the kind of project that should take maybe 20 or 30 minutes tops.

[evansd2]

Or wait, even easier… Just remove every third tooth and you get the same effect.

[shop]

what @evansd2 said. i will say, though, that seems like an unstable finger joint when you remove the fingers and leave gaps like that. i use a lot of small fingers when i create box joins, but i haven’t tried leaving any out.

[evansd2]

@shop

but i haven’t tried leaving any out

I have but I filled them with contrasting wood. They’re plenty stable that way…

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[shop]

Yeah, if they’re not empty it’s stable. But if there’s nothing there, especially with narrow fingers like that, it wouldn’t take much torque to break one.

[rbtdanforth]

It would be easiest to make it all narrow fingers and then remove the second one out of every 6 but I would not leave them empty but dropping in something else like bright blue acrylic or like @shop has suggested.

[narmin]

The part that I really like about it is that it does not need any glue. The file does not have any clues in it!

[shop]

whether you need glue or not is really a factor of getting the kerf right. i make boxes all the time that don’t need glue and aren’t missing any fingers.