Business Card Holder - Another Early Project

Very nice. I like yours the best.

-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

how wonderful – and the story makes it a treasure

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Quite an accomplishment all things considered!

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

looks like a future family hierloom ! great job and great story

I echo Dan’s sentiment, although his are pretty nice. Now Paul, here is the toughie. Do you think you could lay hands on that FWW plan, or draw/type your way through how this was made? I think this is the sharpest looking card holder I’ve seen. I’d love to make a batch…

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

I agree, I would like to make some of those business card holders as well.

-- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com

I’m not sure why you’d post that with trepidation. I really like it. I can see making some like yours.

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

I’ll look for the article. I’ve built a pretty large magazine library over the past 25 years, so I hope my memory is correct – narrowing my search to the B&W Fine Woodworking issues.

-- Paul, Texas

That is a great looking business card holder.

-- Andy Stark

I went looking on the Fine Woodworking web site and on the 2nd Edition of Fine Woodworking DVD and I could not find anything for business card, card holder.

Sorry about that.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

I can’t see nothing that indicates the need to be remake again. The lid and all the pieces fit perfectly and it looks sharp and neat. It is a truly craftsman’s piece, Paul.

-- Jojo, shopless in Kyoto · http://twitter.com/kagushokunin

will sketchup this piece when I’m done in the shop this evening. my wife gets off work late, so I’m taking advantage of my personal time.

Paul this is a really nice piece. I have a memory of this one somewhere too. You might be right. I have a large collection of FWW mags and recall the design from somewhere. Terrific piece to use up those little shorts that any project seems to create and we always hate to through away !

-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

See the buzz your old piece has created, Paul! I hope Dan will link to this with his sketchup entry. I’m excited about trying these.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

Love the project and the story!

-- Todd A. Clippinger, Montana, http://amcraftsman.com

Great story! This proves that we dont need Norm Abrahms shop to make nice things.There are many ways to tackle the same task. I made this same design for my dad,about 20 years ago,from plans in a book of projects by FWW. I will look around.

Very nicely done Paul.

-- " If I can make it,so can you" Andy in Oregon

Nice indeed Paul. Your limitations with tools at the time allowed you to make it perfectly imperfect.

-- miles125, Alabama.."Architecture is frozen music""

Reverse engineered the design from the photo using my business card and a scale. The jpeg below is the design without any curves or textures. Figured it would be easier to dimesnion in sketchup and make a cut list that way. If anyone wants the model send me a email and I’ll attach the file and return it to you.

Will fiddle with the model and add the curved edges, but starting out square is where I’d make it anyway. Probably hand forming the edges on a belt or disk sander etc.

-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

Thanks Dan.

3/4” thick might be a little thick if you wanted to carry it in your pocket or purse. You could probably get by with a little thinner pieces I didn’t see on your drawing if it was 1/4 – 1/4- 1/4 for the 3/4 size.

If it was a desk model then the thickness would be OK.

The 1/2” on the sides could be the 1/4 dimension.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

Been sanding and attending an auction all day. (Sand a couple hours, take a break, sand a couple hours, take a break, etc.) No luck at the auction. Kept checking on a Stanley 7 plane I didn’t need, and then it got thrown into a box of stuff I didn’t want – so I ended up passing and coming home with nothing to sand some more.

But I did find the article when I came in for the day. Article written by Daniel Mosheim in the November/December 1980 issue of Fine Woodworking pg. 63. Entitled “Flip Open Box from One Piece of Wood.” Sam Maloof working on one of his chairs pictured on the cover.

I’m not sure about copyright and posting plan drawings/article on Lumberjocks. So if you e-mail me, I can scan it and send it to you. I’m going on a mission trip tomorrow after lunch so I might be a week or so before I get you a scan.

-- Paul, Texas

Sadly the article is out of print and not indexable from FWW.com either.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

It’s a great project, for sure! Nice find Paul! I get some shop time today so I’m going to take a run at it.

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

I sent an email to Mr. Daniel Moshiem, regarding the out-of-print article, and he promptly replied and promised to see if he could scare up a copy of the original article. He was “humbled” that something he committed to print nearly 28 years ago was still causing a stir. His website has some wonderfully designed and made studio furniture.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

Your card holder is a wonderful keepsake just the way it is.

Hi … Dan Mosheim here …. I have retrieved a box that i made around the time of the article (1980), located the original article and posted it all to my blog … http://dorsetcustomfurniture.blogspot.com/ .... I think it is just fantastic that there are so many of you interested in this tricky little project. Keep at it. If you have an improvement to my process, please post a comment to my blog or email me and I’ll post it to mine with the orignal stuff.

-- dan,vermont,http://dorsetcustomfurniture.blogspot.com/

Yippie!
Now if I shank this project, I will have no excuses. Thanks again, Dan for taking time out of your schedule to find this material. Let me say that I’m thrilled to see you joined up here, and hope you find the site as enjoyable as we all do.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

Thank you Dan. I am sure a lot of people will be looking to try this out.

-- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com