Marine Corps Stuff: More Full-Sized Boxes

Marine Corps Stuff

More Full-Sized Marine-themed Blanketboxes

Wedding Box

This box was made as a wedding present for a local couple.  The customers designed the word art, and provided me with a paper copy.  I in turn created a laser-ready image and engraved the lid and panels.  The box was stained with Minwax Early American #230.  The box uses regular hinges rather than piano hinges because the box only measures 29 inches, and piano hinges generally come in lengths of 30 inches or better.  The box is smaller because I used thinner rails (1x3 stock instead of 1x4), and the panels are square, and it lost a couple inches in each direction. 

This box has a nice big EGA on the front, with a plain, breadboarded lid, box joints at the corners, and a cedar lining to keep out the pests.  It also has nice brass handles on the end to make picking it up easier.  The box is made of pine, and stained with Minwax "Early American", a nice medium brown that really emphasizes the corner details. Several coats of Minwax Wipe-On Satin Gloss polyurethane gives this box a deep luster. 

And one happy customer →

Box-Jointed Blanketbox with EGA and Iwo Jima Flag Raising

This is a very nice box using the Red Mahogany stain again.  I made this box while I was still working on my copy of the Iwo Jima flag raising image.  I actually had to put several versions together to get the best image.  The first time I engraved the image, it was too small.  That is when I incorporated parts of an uncropped version of the photo.  Rather than glue up a whole new panel, I just flipped it over.  The first image looked really nice, just not what I wanted, so I framed it out, rather than cover it up, when I lined the box with cedar.  It made a nice little surprise for my customer.

Front

Corner Detail

Lid

Back

Cedar Lining

Surprise

Raised Panel Box with Iwo Jima Flag Raising and EGAs

This box incorporates the same images, but is has mortise and tenon joints and raised panels, and was stained with Golden Oak.

Raised Panel Box with VMGR-234 Logos and EGAs

This box has the VMGR-234 logo on the front panels and EGAs on the end panels.  The lid has a C-130 in a bank, with the squadron logo in the bottom right corner and an EGA shadowed into the upper right corner. The inside of the lid is personalized with a message from the Mom to her Marine.  The whole box is stained with Golden Oak.

Lid

Side

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