NikolAI top detailing

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When I started building the NikolAI box I was determined that it shouldn't look like it had been laser cut (the same with all my puzzle boxes really). This means trying to avoid the typical finger joints and minimising the brown edges. I wanted to make a nice sturdy curve for the top edge of the box and decided the best method was to stack hundreds of layers. You can see all three layers of the ply which makes it look like three times as many layers were stacked. 



Each segment has two small engraved areas, this reduces the height in those areas to 2.5mm. When the segments are stacked they form this little cassellated detail on the horizontal and vertical edges of the curve.

Now I'm doing the remakes I'm almost regretting this choice. Each edge alone has 240mm of material stacked from 3mm sheets which is 80 layers. Times four sides, times five boxes which is 1600 segments, all press fitted onto the two rails that align them and hold them together. Even with the small segment size and some sections left over from the first box, these used up all my scrap material, two full sheets of material and took the best part of two days to assemble.




 


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