My first project for "How to Make" was a dice tower. The original design can be found at Jeff Bowman's Glowforge project site here. The tower friction-folds into a solid block:
or the top and front can be pulled open:
Inside are a series of wooden baffles at odd angles to bounce the dice about for a fair roll. I added the felt at the bottom, both for a touch of class and to hide some flaws in the wood.
Next up is a tool tote. Since a lot of what I'm doing right now feeds into my historical miniatures hobby, I originally made my design three-fourth of the scale of the example box, but when I found out we'd be using .69-inch thick plywood, I increased it to seven-eights. The curve on the two middle support pieces is sharper so that the angled edges don't go all the way to the sides; no functional reason for that, I just liked how it looked. And it's not shown in the drawing, but I'm hoping to round off the top of the handle to match the rounded tops of those support pieces.
Next up is a tool tote. Since a lot of what I'm doing right now feeds into my historical miniatures hobby, I originally made my design three-fourth of the scale of the example box, but when I found out we'd be using .69-inch thick plywood, I increased it to seven-eights. The curve on the two middle support pieces is sharper so that the angled edges don't go all the way to the sides; no functional reason for that, I just liked how it looked. And it's not shown in the drawing, but I'm hoping to round off the top of the handle to match the rounded tops of those support pieces.
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