The box is a very useful product for any housewife. Every needlewoman dreams of having such a casket and putting various little things in it. It's not only separate element decor, but also necessary thing for storing accessories, decorations, jewelry, notes, handicraft items. But not many people find exactly what they need, and with as many drawers as is necessary to accommodate all their existing gizmos. Therefore, let's consider various ways How to make a box that’s just right for you, with your own hands. We will also find out what materials can be used in the work.
There are many options on how to make a box yourself. A box for small items can be made from anything. The base can be a box of shoes, sweets, dishes, and even a large roll of tape. Any material is welcome - tin, plywood, plastic, cardboard and other raw materials. The box from the box is decorated not only on the outside, but also on the inside. For this purpose, fabric is often used, colored paper or wallpaper. Be sure to prepare a drawing by measuring the base and transferring the indicators to paper. Do not forget about allowances, avoiding the maximum number of joints. The bottom of the box may be soft. To do this, before gluing the inside of the box, place padding polyester or a piece of foam rubber on the bottom.
The outer sides of the box are covered with either decorative paper or fabric. The lid of the box can be decorated with a drawing, photo, painted with acrylic paints or applied with applique. Don't forget to varnish the top of the product. Beads, sequins, sparkles, buttons, etc. are also used for decoration - use your imagination and use whatever your heart desires.
Casket like independent element, as well as the drawers in it, will look more holistic if they are further decorated. The accessories for boxes offered in stores serve not only as decoration, but also provide the box with the necessary functionality. You can decorate the box with satin ribbons, lace, rhinestones, pieces of leather and other details. Also, the material from which the box is made can be decorated with embossing, decoupage or drawings made using any other application technique.
Decorative hinges and original fasteners, such as nails and screws, not only decorate the casket, but also hold it together wooden parts and ensure proper movement of the drawers and lid.
There are accessories for boxes, which are both decoration and perform necessary functions. This includes legs, handles, hooks and latches made of metal, brass and nickel. They not only serve for a long time, but are also original decor boxes, giving the products a luxurious and finished look.
Before creating a wooden box, you need to prepare detailed drawings on sheets of paper. Draw a sketch of the selected design with required sizes. Craftsmen recommend first creating a model of the future box from paper in order to clearly see its dimensions. Using the drawing, we place the templates on wooden blank and transfer the parts to the board, clearly measuring right angles. Using a jigsaw, you need to cut out all the parts, processing the edges for fastening with special care. We clean the edges of the finished parts with a file and sand them down.
We connect the walls of the box with glue at the junction points, then clamp them with a vice for a tighter fit. After drying, glue the bottom to the resulting workpiece. We also collect wooden cover. Connect the top to the base metal loops, which, in turn, are fastened with screws or self-tapping screws. In this regard, the thickness of the wood blanks must be at least 1 cm, so that subsequently cracks do not appear in the screw-in areas.
We sand the model again sandpaper, smoothing the surface. We putty the fasteners and joints, then prime the entire structure and cover it with clear varnish. If desired, the varnish can be replaced special paints for working with wood. After the box is dry, you can start decorating it.
The original decoration of a miniature wooden casket is a popular type of decoration - decoupage. The method is quite simple to implement and does not require expensive materials. To perform such work, you need decoupage napkins or special designs, mixtures whose main component is glue, as well as special coatings.
Initially, the surface of the product is sanded and coated with water-based emulsion. Then the selected image should be separated from the base by soaking and applied to the sides or top of the box. Using PVA diluted in equal quantities with water, the design is glued to the surface of the box. After some time, the box can be painted, imitate aging by patination or craquelure, and varnished.
Wooden boxes, decorated using decoupage, take on the appearance of a rare item, due to this this method refers to vintage style.
One more original method decorating a wooden box is painting. This method will give the product aesthetics and elegance, and with minimal financial costs. Solid wood, from which you will make a box and subsequently paint it, may be the most accessible and inexpensive.
Before decorating the box, its surface must be sanded and impregnated. linseed oil. Then wooden plots primed, and after drying it is applied to them with acrylic or oil paints pattern. If you are using a repeating pattern, you can use stencils to make the work easier. At the final stage, the image is coated with alkyd varnish in several layers.
Wanting to imitate Khokhloma motifs, the box is completely covered with gold paint, while drawing the image itself, they use different shades. Then the painting is fixed with drying oil, and the product is dried in the oven, setting the temperature to 120 degrees. Additional decorative details made from clay will look extraordinary.
How to make a box without woodworking skills? Yes, very simple! For this you will need a regular newspaper. Auxiliary materials will be a knife, paper glue, thin knitting needle, acrylic paints and varnish. Newspaper sheets need to be unfolded and cut lengthwise into four parts. The resulting strips need to be twisted into tubes using a stocking needle. To do this, place the knitting needle along the edge of a piece of newspaper at a slight angle and wind a strip onto it, coating the corner with glue. Having prepared a sufficient amount of material in this way, you can begin weaving a box from tubes. The photo diagram is shown below.
Take 16 parts and arrange them in a cross, intertwining the middles with each other. Coat the intersection with glue. Using a working tube bent in half, begin to braid the bottom elements, grabbing two main parts each. To extend the tube, insert one element into another. Having created right size bottom, place any shape on it and lift the main tubes up. At this stage of work, the box needs to be woven upward, giving it shape. When finishing the work, pass the bent ends between the intertwined tubes and cut.
The upper part of the box is woven in a similar way. To make the lid a little wider, weave it over the bottom piece that fits over the pan. Ready product it is necessary to coat it with PVA, then paint it or coat it with a special varnish.
If you don’t store shoe boxes, you can make a box for small items of the desired size using cardboard. You can choose the dimensions at your discretion, and then draw a blank on cardboard. It is most convenient to create a drawing of the future box as a whole, and then bend it into in the right places and glue the sides together. You can use the sample shown in the photo. The boxes are assembled in the same way and then covered with decorative paper. The outer sides of the box are also covered with a pre-selected material. If desired, partitions can be created inside. A cardboard box can contain several drawers and compartments of different sizes.
Very interesting option making a box from plastic bottle. To create it you need an old miniature doll, a heat gun, various laces, ribbons, ribbons, and light fabric. You need to cut out the middle of the bottle and cut off the neck. For work, leave the top and bottom with a high side. Then place the upper part of the doll in the place where the neck of the container was and glue it. The legs will have to be separated from the body. To make the lining, you can use padding polyester, from which you need to cut 2 circles, wrap them in chiffon and stitch them. Then sew a long strip of the same material gathered on one side to each circle, imitating a full skirt. Next, glue the mugs to the bottom and top of the box from the inside. We bend the edges of the skirts to external sides and attach it using a heat gun. A piece of organza will serve as a fastening for the two parts.
You can decorate the doll different ways. For example, glue a lot of frills to the top and bottom of the box. Decorate the bodice and top with lace. Make a hat from ribbons by gathering one of the sides into a circle and gluing a bow on top.
There are a lot of options for creating a box. The main thing is your imagination and desire to create something unusual and exclusive. The casket made by your hands will be a great gift for a close friend or beloved mother.
Wooden boxes are a universal item that can serve for many purposes. Do you need a gift for your birthday, in honor of your promotion? career ladder, for housewarming or New Year? A man, or maybe a woman? Do you have nowhere to put decorations or nowhere to store gift cards? Purchasing a box will help you. However, if you don’t want to spend a lot or are wondering how to make a box out of wood, this article will come in handy.
Such a luxury item as a box appeared in the world quite a long time ago, several millennia BC. However, not everyone could afford them. They were designed to store jewelry and precious stones and were often made of gold, silver or bronze. The poorer owners were the owners of cheaper boxes made of wood covered with fabric or other inexpensive material. Regardless of the cost and quality of the casket, it became a family treasure and was passed on to descendants.
With the development of industrialization and the transition to machine production, purchasing a casket has become much more accessible. Now it occupies an honorable place in the lives of modern people.
Making a box self made- this is a creative process, and therefore there are many different types of them. First of all, they differ in the material of manufacture. For example it could be:
Any box can be simple or elaborately decorated. The following techniques are most often used to decorate a casket:
Since buying a high-quality casket can cost you a pretty penny, it is much more profitable to create a wooden casket with your own hands.
To do this you will need:
Carvings have been used to decorate chests since ancient times, which is why carved wooden boxes are very popular. This technique will look quite harmonious on the chest we created.
If you are a beginner and wood carving is new or new to you, then use a geometric and large pattern as it is easier. You should stock up on a chisel, knives and a drill. You can find more detailed lessons in a separate master class. If you consider yourself a professional in the field of carving, then you can choose openwork or sculptural carving - it looks much more elegant.
Develop, create, create. Success in creative work!
Grace of form, unusual style, modern design, - all these qualities are inherent in the work of master Michael Cullen, who creates original wooden boxes. In this master class we will tell you how to make such wooden boxes with your own hands.
Creative projects do not require large quantity time, complex measurements and planning. There are no carpentry joints in the boxes, and source material unnecessary scraps lying around in the workshop can be used to make them.
The creation of lightweight, durable and elegant boxes is based on the utmost simple technology. Products are cut into band saw or jigsaw machine from whole piece wood, cut into two parts and glued back together. Plywood allows you to relieve internal stress, eliminating deformation and cracking of the box as the wood dries out. After this, a lid is made and the bottom is glued in.
All boxes are made using the same technology, however, each of them has its own unique style. These projects welcome creativity. Experiment with limitless variations of shape and decoration, creating unusual and stylish boxes for jewelry, rings, watches and other small, and if desired, large items.
Quick sketch . On the processed workpiece, cut lines are drawn with a pencil. A simpler option is to paste a pre-printed drawing with dimensions onto the upper plane of the workpiece. When transferring the sketch, it is important to maintain the longitudinal orientation of the fibers.
Blank for lid . A flat longitudinal part 15-20 mm thick is sawed off from the main workpiece, which will later become the lid of the box.
The angle of the table is changed by several degrees.
Having changed the tilt of the table by 2-3°, the part is cut in two and the internal waste part is cut out, forming a conical cavity of the box.
The two halves are glued back together. Plywood allows you to relieve internal stress, preventing deformation and cracking of the wooden box. The glue is applied in a thin and even layer. Excess that bleeds through is very difficult to clean inside the box.
Drying . The glued workpiece is carefully placed under the clamps, carefully checking the absence of displacements and distortions.
Blanks for the lid and bottom . Having returned the table to a horizontal position, two sections are sawed off from the waste part. This will be the lid element and the bottom of the box.
Drawing of the blank for the lid and bottom
Cavity painting . If you want to decorate a wooden box not only on the outside, but also on the inside, paint its cavity while it remains easy access at both sides.
Sawing out external walls . Returning the saw table to an inclined position, make cuts along the outer contour.
A thin layer of glue is applied to the ends of the bottom and inserted into the lower part of the box, pressing with your fingers until it stops.
The element intended for the lid of the box is glued onto the blank made at the very beginning.
Sawing the lid . After the glue has dried, trace the main outline of the lid and cut out this final part.
The presented technology is universal. It allows you to experiment with design and unusual shapes, creating at home beautiful and original boxes that are not similar to each other.
A similar sequence of actions underlies the next project - a four-wall wooden box. Thanks to its unusual curved shape, its design looks stylish and modern.
Despite visual appeal The boxes acquire their shape and truly original style after decoration. It gives unlimited freedom for creativity in this matter.
The most detailed master class Oleg Sopov from Tyumen sent us instructions for making a series of boxes.
Materials furniture board and plywood. We take a pre-glued pine board and also cut it into equal parts.
We cut the plywood into equal sheets. 
Then we set the saw to make a groove for the plywood. 
We go through it once, then we move the saw and go through it again, and so on on both sides. There is still some wood left between the 2 cuts. Now we also just move the ruler back a little bit. 
The width of both cuts should be equal to the thickness of the plywood 
After the final cut (remove the jumper), we check whether the plywood fits into the groove. 
Since we will then glue everything together, there will be no opportunity to remove the edge inside, so we remove it now. To do this, we set up the cutter and try it first on some other block, if everything suits you, then you can mill our panels 
The inner part is where the groove is, it is on this side that the edge needs to be removed 
Now you can cut everything to size. We set the ruler to the distance we need, turn the saw 45 degrees and cut off all the panels 
The parts are pressed in on both sides. 
Now we are preparing for gluing; we prepare tape, a wet rag and glue in advance. 
We check the geometry of the parts by putting them together. 
Now we take the shields we need and try them on to see if everything fits. After this, we begin to glue all the joints, inside and out, as in the photo. 
It should look like this smooth “footcloth” 
Then we insert the plywood and put everything together, everything fits perfectly 
We trially roll the box and see how the grooves, inserts and burrs behave. 
We unfold and disassemble the structure 
Now we take everything apart and you can apply glue. We coat the grooves and corners with it. 
We do all the manipulations again. We also tighten the last joint with tape 
Now we wait until everything dries. After it has dried, it may turn out that the box does not have a plane and it wobbles. To level it you need a flat surface and sandpaper. 
We put the paper on the table and press it, then rub it with a box on the surface and the surface is leveled 
Since the gluing at 45 degrees is very weak, it needs to be strengthened. I will make inserts from oak, they will strengthen the joint and will serve a decorative role. To make it, you need to make such a device 
It allows you to saw through the corners of the box 
On next photo liner with variable pitch of 3.5 mm. 
And then everything is simple, we take the linings, place them between the ruler and the box at the required distance and simply cut them on all 4 sides. 
Three cuts per corner 
Next we make the slats with the thickness of the cut. We outline with a pencil a little more than necessary and cut it into triangles with a jigsaw 
It turns out this is a bunch of triangular liners. 
We coat the grooves with glue and hammer the inserts into them. 
We are waiting for the glue to dry. 
After drying, sand off excess 
Now we mill the corners on the box; for this we take a molding cutter with the required radius. 
You get these neat roundings. 
After this, we take a slotted round cutter and mill a sample along the contour of our lid. 
It turns out like this semicircular groove. 
We do it on three sides - front and sides 
After this, you need to take something round in the shape of a cylinder. I took the marker. We wrap sandpaper around the marker and sand our groove. 
After sanding, you need to cut off the cover. Nothing complicated, just as usual we set the ruler in such a way that the saw passes along our groove 
We make a slit on one side, then turn it over and make the next cut, and so on in a circle. 
On the last side, when you cut through it, it is better to pull the cover away from the saw rather than push it. So you definitely won’t overextend 
Well, we grind the plane again flat surface. And don’t forget to peel off the tape from the inside where the glue remains 
This way we fit the lid exactly to the walls. 
Now it’s time for the hinges, I didn’t initially know what kind of hinges there would be, and it so happened that the hinges I bought had the same diameter as the wall thickness. 
There is a way out of this situation and it is quite simple. I was lucky again, I found a couple of ready-made small shields in the workshop. I processed these shields at a minimum. I put it through a thicknesser to make sure it was level, then I tried it on and cut it to the required length. We take the inner length, since it’s better not to glue anything on the outside, it will be very noticeable 
Carefully, in several passes, we adjust them to the inner width of the box. 
We cut off the part protruding from the top and put it in the lid. 
Coat with glue 
And clamp it with clamps. 
After gluing, we sand everything and move on. Installing hinges. I didn’t mark the middle; I placed the marks closer to the inside of the box. This will allow the lid of the box to open not 180 degrees, but less. That is, the lid will rest against the back wall, thereby preventing it from falling completely in the opposite direction. 
Drill out the holes with a drill bit. 
To do this, you still need to cut off a small corner. To do this, we set the angle we need, I took 45. And just cut it off back wall(where we did not select a semicircular groove with a cutter) 
What remains uncut, we simply grind. You don't need much effort for this. Now let's make a handle, so to speak. To do this, first make 2 holes. Decide for yourself where to place them. 
Then we turn the saw at an angle and set the ruler so that the saw fits directly into the circle 
After this, we move the ruler a little so that the saw is tangential to the circle of the hole. We do the same on the other side, but now all this must be done with the saw in reverse. If someone doesn’t know what this means, reverse motion means we start the part with reverse side saws 
After this, set the saw straight and cut off the remaining part of the handle in several passes. 
Then the only small thing left is to sand everything well. And install the hinges in the holes. By the way, loops of this type have two grooves on the sides. They are made specifically for self-tapping screws. Be sure to unscrew the screws into these grooves. Even if the loop fits tightly into the hole. 
I covered the box with stain and varnish on top. The box became smooth and pleasant to the touch.
If you are covering it with stain, then good sanding is required. Since the stain will reveal all the defects. You can cover it with oil, under the oil the jambs are not visible. But pine is not very suitable for oil, since it is soft wood. This is the advantage of varnish - it gives hardness 
You can also glue silicone legs like I did. With them the box stands better and does not slip 
Production process wooden boxes quite complex and may differ from one manufacturer to another. In our production, the production of boxes from plywood, MDF or wood begins with the construction of the body of the product, which consists of side walls (or trim), a lid and a bottom.
The frame of the box is joined, as a rule, with an aesthetic miter joint, when the side walls are sawn at an angle of 45 degrees and the joint is almost invisible. “Butt-to-toe” (straight) and “tenon” (comb to comb) connections are also possible.
The flat lid and bottom are attached to the harness with an overlay. If the box is used for heavy contents, a mortise bottom is made.
After joining the wooden case into a closed “cube”, the future box is cut along the parting plane. This technology for the production of wooden boxes ensures an individual fit of the lid and bottom.
Painting - priming, application of tone, enamels, varnish, as a rule, occurs when the product is disassembled. After painting works, the production of which takes at least 2-3 days, accessories are installed on gift boxes - locks, hinges, limiters.
Wooden boxes are usually made from solid wood in combination with wood-based materials.
The fact is that the tree is natural material, subject to warping, which manifests itself in products over time, especially when large sizes. Therefore, solid wood can be used for small boxes, the dimensions of which do not exceed 10-12 cm.
Basically, in production a combination of array and sheet materials- plywood, MDF, and, extremely rarely, panels made from wood blocks.
From solid wood The walls of the box are usually made. Beech is most often used for side walls. For the lid and bottom, either sawn beech veneer or MDF with beech veneer is suitable. Oak, oak veneer and MDF are also used in the production of oak boxes.
Sanded birch plywood is often used for manufacturing. Plywood is indispensable when you need to save money or make strong, large-sized packaging.
The appearance of a beech, oak or plywood box depends on the painting. The color shade of the product is given by the tone through which the structure of the wood is visible. Most often, products are tinted in the colors of rarer wood species - cherry, walnut, mahogany and ebony.
Boxes made from natural valuable woods such as mahogany, padauk and wenge are beautiful in themselves and are usually not tinted.
