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Gaming Pieces Box

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With the pieces finished, I stained them darker and covered with a couple coats of polyurethane.
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With the pieces finished, I stained them darker and covered with a couple coats of polyurethane.

  • This box was started as a sort of a throw-away project to learn and practice dovetail joints. Shown here is my first ever attempt at such. The angles and measurements were pretty straightforward, but for dovetails this narrow I actually had to buy a chisel and grind it down to fit into the gaps.
  • I sort of did a running design for this box, which meant that I didn't really plan out how it was all going to be jointed. Once the sides were together I went with just gluing the bottom in place and then reinforcing it with rods of nails in drilled and glued holes. This went nicely with the top theme, which was actually inspired by installing these nails.
  • To add a bit of gaming style to the top, I chopped the tips off a bunch of nails and installed them in holes drilled in the top edges of the box.
  • The body of the box assembled after installed the spikes, and without the dice slots installed. This box will eventually nest inside a larger box, so I drilled some finger slots in the side for pulling this one out.
  • With the pieces finished, I stained them darker and covered with a couple coats of polyurethane.
  • The finished box, which wound up exactly the right size to hold all the components, and the nails actually hold the lid well enough to keep it all together without any latching mechanisms. I'm still uncertain as to whether I should cover the drilled holes in the lid with something decorative to finish the looks, but it functions just fine as it is.
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