An Unnecessarily Heavy Box w/ Epoxy & Aluminum Honeycomb Accents
Last year I was commissioned to create a gift for an engineer. Here’s what I knew: He was an aviation geek, hexagon lover, and (almost hypocritically) a connoisseur of horrendously over-engineered designs. This is the story of how I designed a wildly impractical box.
Blending typical woodworking techniques for making a box with some composite materials (aluminum honeycomb and epoxy), I came up with a design that both looked cool and felt substantial in hand.
Epoxy from my friends at TotalBoat:
Previous video where I developed my recipe and affinity for CNC miter joints:
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