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EICo Box - the cardboard mock-up

Page history last edited by Shylaah 13 years, 2 months ago

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The East India Trading Company VS Captain Jack Sparrow!

...........and the winner is??? 

 

 

The time has come to begin working on this little project that I've had on the back burner for quite some time.  Finally finished up the research on it, finished up all the calculations of measurements and planned the angle of attack, gathered my sharp pencil and Xacto knife, got a *story board* together and am ready to begin!

 

 

This is going to be a balsa wood build as I don't have any "real" woodworking tools and do not do enough of this kind of thing to justify investing in any such tools.

But first. I'm making a cardboard mock-up to see if the proportions look right before I buy and start hacking away at the balsa.  I have it drawn off on some poster board so I can spend a day cutting, assembling and watching glue dry!  Isn't that yellow a lovely color, It was in the Hobby Lobby clearance bin for 25 cents, so I guess I shouldn't complain too much.

 

 

Didn't make as much progress as I had hoped.  Did get the bottom cut out and glued up and the front skirt drawn and cut out.

 

 

Got the bottom put together. Glued some corrugated cardboard to the inside as the poster board wasn't quite strong enough on that large of an area.  Checking the fit of a faux Letter of Marque cover--the next project on the list.

 

 

There is a definite bevel around the EICo logo on the box, but how much?  I just did some trial and error.....1/4 didn't seem like anything, and 1/2 seemed too much, so I went with a 3/8 inch rise. Photographed from near the same angle as the screen cap, it looks close....may look different in the wood--when I get there, guess that will require some more trial and error.

I guess you could plane off a block of wood like that, but I know I'm not skilled enough to ever get it straight. Maybe do it on some kind of router table?
Looking at the ref pic just now, and those lines going across that front beveled/faceted edge, I always wondered about what they were--could be gouges from a too heavy-handed planing.......

 

Here's the lid mock-up I did. Going to try to get the balsa first part of next week, but won't have much time to work much on that it till after I get back from Harry Potter World, and have forgotten all I learned putting the mock-up together :)

 

 

Well, here it is past them middle of January of the New Year and I've still not got back to this.  Plan to though--real soon!

 

Look for updates on the EICo Box, the balsa wood construction page.

 

 

 

 

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