Making Pen & Pencil Boxes with Lever Action Lids
In the box making series, another project, pen and pencil walnut boxes, with a lever action lid design, you press on one side and the other pops out. You can find this box design in the book Box Making Basics, David Freedman - amzn.to/47sA9GM
Various boxes for sale on my store www.adrianpreda.com/shop
■ Some tools used in this video:
Suizan 9.5” Dozuki Dovetail - amzn.to/3vybLWU (Amazon)
Veritas Low Angle Smoothing Plane - bit.ly/2HbDAYC (Dictum)
Veritas Detail Rabbet Plane - bit.ly/3bu7BRt (Dictum)
Veritas Mini Router Plane - bit.ly/2mTqp7m (LeeValley)
Combination Square 6”/150mm - amzn.to/47z5aZu (Amazon)
Kebiki Marking Gauge - amzn.to/3Hf5FgI (Amazon), bit.ly/3owdDKe (Dictum)
Mini Try Squares - amzn.to/47G8GBG (Amazon), bit.ly/39sQFJm (Dictum)
Shinwa Mitre Square - amzn.to/4aX1jsq (Amazon), bit.ly/2HhsvFC (Dictum)
Bosch PSM Primo Sander - amzn.to/3TSlUYF (Amazon)
■ List of all my tools: www.adrianpreda.com/blog/tools
■ Tools list on Amazon www.amazon.com/shop/adrianpreda
■ Plans and Products I make on my store here www.adrianpreda.com/shop
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Ain't that the cutest router plane and shoulder plane ever!
Pencils never had a better home. Nice job!
Thank you!
Awesome work as usual!
Very nice pencil box! I like how the lid works! Thank you.
My daughter-in-law is an artist, and I am making this box for her for her birthday. Thanks for a great suggestion and inspiration!
Beautiful. Great job with all the hand tool!
Very well constructed. I really appreciate your craftsmanship! Excellent work
Excellent! You have outdone your self again, Adrian.
Thank you Mik! 👍
Beautiful job, nicely done
Great work and brillant video!
Thank you Stephan as always!
Amazing work!
Thank you!
Wonderful job Adrian!
I have become obsessed with your videos!
Beautiful boxes! I love the simple elegant lid technique!!
Thanks! Yes, clever idea, not mine original dough :) I will make now smaller versions just for a pen
My compliments sir. That was a fine example of both talent and skill. Thank you for sharing it with us.
Beautiful details.
Thank you!
Beautiful, as always.
Grazie Marco! 👍
I think I just meditated for the first time. What a relaxing and enjoyable video. Thank you so so much. You now have another subscriber. :)
Thank you very much Bernhard!
This is so awesome. I figured I had to have expensive power tools to even make anything decent. So exciting~
Probably because a lot of youtubers making things are sponsored by power tool companies
It's amazing to see the results you can get with sharp tools. Excellent work!
+Hack 'n Build Thanks! And keeps your fingers undamaged too😁 I was full of injuries at the begining when using poor sharping methods
Oh that hand router is just too too divine! 😍
Haha yes, it's very cute :)
Excellent work, I love how something not quite being perfectly square gives it that made by hand look, something sadly missing from todays machine made mass produced items. Well done!
Very nice. Well done.
Wow! Beautiful
Thanks!
Beautiful craftsmanship.
Simple, useful, attractive. And without power tools. Not that power tools are somehow wrong, but they may not have improved this work speed and accuracy-wise. Nice work!
That tiny hand router though! Amazing
As always very nice job Adrian.
Thank you Frank!
Cute and nice delicate job
Beautiful work Adrian :) I like the look of the basewood for contrast too ॐ
Thank you! Yes, I like more too the basswood keys. Even if the padauk and purpleheart are too exotic, the "cheap" basswood makes a nice contrast with the walnut :)
Very elegant boxes, nicely made, good work!
Thanks Mike!
Beautiful work 👍🏼
Thank you Ana!
Stunning work and very calming music too
Glad you like it, thanks!
Very relaxing video. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoy it!
so innovative! I always had to painstakingly load the pencil for the muzzle but no more!
Really good work! 👍
Thank you!
Good job Adrian !
Thank you Vladimir!
Lovely video and boxes!
Thank you Stefan! I am glad you like it!
Very nice.
Very nice and clean! I really want to try a shooting board for 45's like that.
nice touch with the lid
honestly i am more impressed at the wide tools you have, with that kind of tools to access your work better come out good which it did good job there. Now most people would have harder time on this as generally we all only have hand saw, hammer, chisel and nails these basic to work with.
So beautifull!!!!
Thank you!
Really great video. It was very relaxing. Also, nice boxes.
+Matt Telepenko Thanks Matt! Thanks for the feedback!
So many great things in this video, all of the jigs were awesome!!! Oh yeah, the box was great too....LOL.
Nice music selection and Wood arts!! Greetings from Argentina, South America...
Gracias! Saludos tambien desde Romania :)
Masterpiece!
Thank you!
Just started making a pencil case myself I definitely will be using the lever action lid idea 😉
Thanks! yes, it's a nice lid idea, I will try to make now similar ones but smaller, just for one pencil. Good luck with the build.
Just realized why I love your channel so much. You barely ever use power tools.
Excellent, very neat clean highly professional work,I am a mechanical engineer,I appreciate your wonderful work.
Great video and great work, I really enjoy watching someone make something that nice without all the high dollar power tools ,jigs, and equipment, truly craftsmanship, thanks
Thank you! I use also some small cheap machinery to do the slavery work 😀 making stock from lumber, but the finesse and final touch with handtools
Beautiful and very well made
Thank you very much Andrea!
These are very very cool and make me want to make one too... Well done
Thanks! I'm glad you like it!
Beautiful! Now I am dreaming of more tools in my workshop...
Thank you! :)
Beautifully crafted! I know this may sound funny but I love the way u applied the glue in the groove when u put the box together..it's a great tip actually, just adding little drops here and there instead if one long line/bead. Bet you get zero squeeze out that way too.im gonna start doing that for groove type glue ups from now on thanks for sharing and the tip. I'm sure you don't look at it as a tip but I do lol look forward to see what you do next I always get in spurts use hand tools after watching your videos Cheers
Oh, Joe, I thought you were upset or something from my previous video :)) or you probably didn't saw my reply :) Yes, actually I put just drops because is too hard and useless to spread it all along the groove, also without touching the outsides, and yes was zero squeeze out, or just a few where I knew I've applied a bigger drop of glue. Thanks mate for your comment, I'm glad you like it. Next two weeks if agw I should have a japanese crazy joinery and the mini/micro japanese toolboxes; again japanese stuff :)) Cheers!
So amazing...simple and beauty good job and awesome 🛠👍
Thank you!
This video of yours is so peaceful I subscribed and this is the only one I've watched so far
Thank you very much! Hope you did enjoyed more of my videos as well :)
Same here!
quite elegant
Good job. Verry nice looking boxes. Almost to nice to use . Cheers buddy
Thanks man! Yes, too delicate for us :)) Ok, now moving to your clip :)))
Nice project and video Adrian. I see you got yourself a sliding saw...or was that at Slovenski's workshop?
Thanks Michael! No, it's the Slovenski Woodworker one :) Where to put that table saw, doesn't even fit in my house :)
Excellent video and process. I enjoyed watching you perform what I'm interested in teaching my campers at our community center. Learn woodworking with and without power tools. Much success an thanks for sharing
Thank you very much! Yes, is a nice example this type of box. All the best!
Simplesmente lindo!!!
Thanks!
Que bueno esta, 👍
Perfect job
Thank you!
Waooo it’s so beauty!❤
Buenisimo trabajo.........
Thank you Emilio!
Magnificent!
Thanks you!
Very nice!
Thanks Francesco! :)
Very nicely made. I love the boxes built with thinner material. So many times to see them where the sides and ends appear overly back to me. Very nicely made
Thank you Paul! I was concerned at first to work on so thin wood, slightly over 1/4", but the walnut holds well the grooves and rabbets made.
Adrian Preda the word elegant comes to mind. Reminds me of some of the fine Japanese craftsmanship I’ve seen.
using mostly handtools is great!fun to watch Adrian!;-)
Thanks Marko! Glad to see you here!
I truly enjoyed watching and learning your techniques. Love the soothing music. Keep up the great work.
+Kathleen Basieiwcz Thank you very much! I appeciate the feedback.
Beautiful work. You have more patience than me because my boxes are built with power tools. 👍
I was watching your vid in total bliss when all of a sudden ... you just had to play with that lid 😁
Yes, was so funny, couldn't stop it :))
that tiny router is adorable and i want one
:)
Beautiful craftsmanship! Please, make videos more frequently!
Thanks! Yes, should be from now on :)
Adrian Preda - Awesome! I'd love to see you expand your little "appartment workshop" for instance - but anything will do really.
Incredible video! Beautiful work! Subbed! Thank you for putting the links to where you got the tools! I will be getting a few of them! :D
Thank you very much!
Sublime!
Thanks!
muy lindas, excelente¡!!!!
+jorcuar leo Gracias!😁
Exquisite
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first vid I have ever watched and immediately knew I was going to hit the like button and do a thank you comment. a beautiful project. also knew I had to order the lee valley router plane and rabbet planes, which I did :(
Sorry for the hole in the pocket :)) But they are reliable little tools! Thank you very much for liking the video!
I do love handtools. They create a real affinity between the wood and you working the wood and are much better on the ears. Is it possible to make the mitre key slots with handtools aswel?
".....First time i see u using power tools Senor Adrian....Great mini projects....!'
Haha, no, I was filming that :) In the previous video, the keepsake boxes, I am cutting them :) Thanks! P.S. I recently bought a mini bandsaw, 8" wheel, I can say is my first and only machinery tool, if you can call a 70 cm high bandsaw a machinery :) But, is good, helps a lot, speeding up rough cutting in order to do more handtools projects :)
Nice work, you really like hand tools :)
Thanks, yes :)
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Really enjoy your videos, thanks for sharing. Do you plan on doing a video of your 45 deg shooting board you use? Seems like just the thing for making boxes.
I have the book with the slab lid boxes and these too!
Yes, it's a very good book for box making, very instructive and easy to follow. Although it's based on building the boxes with power tools, it can be easily adapt the techniques to hand ones, for most of them of course.
beautiful
Thank you!
very good👍
Hello, your videos and your works are amazing! Could you make a video of the thickness planing jig? And maybe one of your 45º shooting board as well? That would be great
Good work
Thank you!
Does your little router have a fence? If not, that's amazing control to cut those grooves and rebates
Great job! I love the precision and quality of the woodworking as well as the video! in one of your vids you show some mini japanese boxes are you gonna make a video of those?
Thanks! Yes, they will be soon, I plan them in 2 weeks from now. I think more people asked, and disappoint them every time that will be soon, sorry, but now they are almost done :) The thing is I've shot 4 projects in the same time, including the mini jp tb, I've started with them, but the others take them in front eventually :) Next week will be another video, then the mini toolboxes. I have made a version of them, same size as the one from that video, from walnut, you can see it on my Etsy store or Instagram, but for the video there will be even smaller :)
Perfetto.
Very lovely work; finished boxes are just beautiful! May I ask what was the device used to cut the groove after you scored the side pieces?
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Thanks!
Just came across your channel. Could you possibly give details of what your tools are/how to make them if DIY? They are so lovely for home crafting.
Nice.
Thanks!!
Nice work! Do you think this type of lid would work on a bigger box, about 12”x12”?
Magnets would be neat 🤙
I like your marking gauge. Would you consider soing a video on making one?
That was not made by me, this is how it was bought. It s a Japanese marking gauge kebiki called. They may look diy dough
Thanks. Very cool.
My fav part is when the box speaks.
I made the kumiko ring box based on your video, trying to utilize your techniques. I’m happy with the result!! So many good techniques in these vids. I learned that my plane isn’t sharp enough. I learned I need a dif set up on my shooting board. But I got it done. Wish I could post a pic on here.
Thank you very much! Nice to hear that, congrats!