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This article will discuss how to make a letterbox out of chocks. The author made a box for gift envelopes, but by the same principle it is possible to make a piggy bank, box and even a birdhouse.

Tools and materials:
-Chock;
-Level;
-A piece of plywood;
-Drill;
-Band-saw;
-Roulette;
-Compass;
-Wedges wooden;
-Strkbtsina;
-Screed;
-Glue;
Milling cutter;
-Sander;
-Wood dowel;
-Thorn dowel;
-Neodymium magnets;
Epoxy resin;
- Danish oil;
-A printer;
-Chisel;

Step One: Harvesting
First you need to choose a flat dry chock. According to the author, wood moisture should not exceed 12 percent. Although it is difficult to check the humidity without sawing the chock. Chock height 46 cm, diameter 33 cm.

Step Two: Cutting
The chocks need to align the ends. For this, the author finds the most even side.

Screws a piece of plywood to it.

I cut the edges with a band saw. On either side cuts an even saw cut, it will be needed for the lid of the box.

Step Three: Cutout Inside
Next, you need to remove the core chocks. A compass draws a circle, stepping back from the edge of 2.5 cm.

A band saw cuts a core. Whatever the saw does not clamp, inserts wedges.

Step Four: Gluing
After removal of the core, glues the edges of the incision. Apply glue to the edges, tighten with straps and a clamp. Leaves to dry for a day.

Step Five: Bottom
Makes a cut from the core.

Glues a cut into the bottom of the drawer.

Step Six: Grinding
The next step is polishing the inside of the box.

Seventh step: cover
Next, you need to install the cover. Attaches a wooden dowel to the end part and encircles it.

Drills a hole.

Now you need to outline where to make a hole in the lid. Installs the dowel-thorn, spike up, into the hole and from above installs the cover. Now the lid should be pricked from the spike.

Drills a hole in the lid.

Slices a piece of the dowel. Inserts it into the hole.

Now the lid is easy to open.

Step Eight: Slot
It makes a slot pattern from plywood.

According to the template makes a slot in the lid.

Step Nine: Magnet
Adds a lock to the cover.The role of the castle will be played by two neodymium magnets. One magnet installs another in the housing cover.

Fixes magnets with glue.

Step Ten: Oil Coating
Grinds the lid and covers with Danish oil.

Step eleven: the inscription
The printer prints a drawing of the heart. Glues it to the drawer. A chisel cuts through the contour. It removes the bark according to the drawing.

The author cut out the letters on a CNC machine. Glues them into the contour of the heart.

The letterbox is ready.

Also the weight manufacturing process can be seen in the video.

March 4, 2017 1:16 p.m. 0

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Quote: pogranec

But in order to rent a tractor, you must submit "rights" to control such equipment. Get permission to work

-So I envy that they as it appears it's all much easier.

So I wrote about them, without any "judging by everything."

March 4, 2017 11:53 Author 0

- So I envy that, apparently, everything is much simpler.

March 4, 2017 11:41 a.m. 0

And not my uncle came to level her plot, but she herself worked on it. You can only envy this level of service.

And you do not envy. Why? For such a service? But in order to rent a tractor, you must submit "rights" to control such equipment. Get permission to work and much more. And if you break that dope, pay for it also.

4 March 2017 11:07 AM 0

The dowel pin is really not a problem. But you need to have a huge set of all diameters. You see, it’s too painful for the author to have everything specialized, which led me to the idea of “artisanal production”, and not a one-time homemade work ...
... As for "their level", ..
I had to travel a lot around the same Germany, for example. So, a German in a garage usually has a rake and a panicle ...)))) ... They usually don’t even have wrenches ....
... There are, of course, "wrapped up" .... But, as a rule, the result is not the end product, but the process itself!

March 4, 2017 10:35 Author 0

No, you are mistaken. This box is intended for envelopes with wishes and congratulations on a birthday, wedding, etc. My name, adapted to our realities. At the expense of tools, so you do not equal our level and them (although CNC is not a problem). Rita, who has beautiful legs, has a site with her works. She laid paving slabs in her area. I just went and rented a bunch of tools and mechanisms starting with a mini tractor. Tractor with a shovel. And not my uncle came to level her plot, but she herself worked on it. You can only envy this level of service. As for the dowel-thorn, he stands at ali 100 r. I think not a problem.

March 4, 2017 09:50 0

And he introduced it in the pouring rain ... And then - in the thawing spring from the snow ...

March 4, 2017 09:45 -1

Well ... firstly, as it seems to me, this is no homemade work! Production of souvenir boxes is put on stream, and the technology is simply described. It is unlikely that the master-do-it-yourselfer has a CNC machine, a powerful band saw and, even, a set of dowel spikes. And to make a plywood template, so that on it then make the same cut in a softer material in a single copy - this, you see, insanity!
And secondly .... And why "written"? Why not the more familiar "mailbox"? ...
... Or did Google translate it simply? )))))))

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