Wooden Box with Sliding Lid
Introduction
I've been making several jigsaw puzzles out of Baltic birch, and I needed some type of box to put them in. As my "precision woodworking" skills are pretty much non-existent, I needed something that looked decent but was easy to build. It also needed to be quick (on a per-unit basis) and inexpensive. What I came up with was a simple box made with solid wood sides and a Baltic Birch top and bottom. The top slides out from a dado in the sides.
A little economics (Feel free to skip :-)): Each box takes a strip of wood 1-3/8"x22" that is 5/16" thick. From a full 6" wide board I can get 8 boxes per board-foot. With sassafras running about $2.50/bdft and a sheet of 1/8" Baltic Birch around $10.00, that gives a material cost of $0.44 per box. Labor is a little harder to figure out. IT takes me about 3 hours to do a set. With most of the time spent in set-up, the cost per box varies greatly. The more boxes in a set, the cheaper the labor costs. For this set of 8 and a hourly rate of $10, that gives an estimated cost of $3.75 per box. With larger runs and a learning curve, I hope to get that down. Even so, at a little over $4 I can live with that for now.
The pictures on this page are currently pretty boring (as in non-existent...). After I finish the set, I'll put some pictures of the final product here.
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Until then, I'll see you on the next page where we prepare the wood!
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