Entry #1 from me. Another to follow in a couple of days.
Pumpkin boxes.
While not technically challenging cuts, there was a lot of them. It felt like I was in a production line.
I made 4 boxes each is 12.5 inches square and the top and bottom are 13.5 inches. Each box has a four faces and they are all different, so 16 total patterns. Most were from the CC library but a few were pulled from online and tweaked.
Major lesson learned is I should have made them a little smaller to get better usage of the material.
The faces were cut on my Shapeoko Pro but all the rest was traditional machines. These will be outside so I painted them to protect the wood.
The faces are. 1/8” luan plywood. The vertical pieces were all cut from a single 2x4 and the tops/bottoms are from glued up pine panels.
Inside I put lights that are color selectable and controlled by a remote. I lined the cutouts with wax paper to distribute the light better. Hopefully that holds out. In the pics it looks like the light source really blooms but in real life it doesn’t look that way.
Next year I may find some motors and a good way to mount them so that they rotate and show off all the faces.
Prior to the painting:
After painting:
Up on the porch, although we will probably move them down into the yard.
I cut each face on individual 10.5” square piece of luan rather than cutting multiple faces on a larger piece and then trimming because I was worried about holding a larger section down flat and didn’t want to use tape in this case.
So, I had 16 files, I don’t think you want them all here. I would be more than happy to share them if anyone cares but they are super simple.
Addendum:
I made some interlocking stands to put the boxes on so they don’t sit flat in the yard.
Good thing I used the plastic clamps.
PumpkinBoxStands.c2d (128 KB)
