Cocobolo/Walnut Pencil Holder Quickie

Beautiful and functional!!

Nice work!

I like it. Nice clean design.

-- Bruce from Central New York

The clean and simple design really let’s the figure work. Cool!

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Jeff, this is a nice project. I really like the look of the cocobolo. It is such a beautiful wood.

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Cool, I like it. I really like cocobolo but it is just to expensive to ever get much of it to play with. Nice job.

-- Glenn, New Mexico

no joke, Glenn. I picked up a couple board feet of shorts for around $20. Typically sold here for around $20 BF for normal length boards. The two boards I got were only about 4/4×3” x 18”. Bought it mainly for accents and small stuff. I’ve posted a couple boxes and such that have it here and there. Harsh wood as well. Wear a respirator for sure.

-- Jeff, South Carolina

Nice looking project. There’s nothing wrong with a good quickie every now and then. Thanks for sharing Jeff.

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Such beautifully rich grain with a nice finish, & design.

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Beautiful work, really nice job. I like it very much.

-- Mike. mwurm13@yahoo.com

Those quickie projects sometimes are the most fun! Looks great.

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Jeff,
Funny, I just planned down some Bubinga today to make two pencil boxes, but after reading how you made yours, I just changed my plans. Hope mine come out as nice as yours!
Thanks for the idea.

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Great job!

Thanks for the post

Callum

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Good luck 3finger. Painters tape came in handy to hold it all in place while fighting to tighten clamps and remain square. Not so easy with little pieces as a cabinet or such. I’m actually was a tad out of square and sanded to compensate, but now I’m telling on myself. . .

-- Jeff, South Carolina

Great posting

another one to my favorites

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Jeff, thanks for the tape idea. I used some canarywood I had on hand and decided to try that as a trial run before using the bubinga. Unfortunately I couldn’t get the glue to hold, it was only a year old so I am not sure what is going on. Also, ended up planing against the grain by mistake and ruined one of the sides. I will try to sand that out and post some pics in the next couple of days. So it looks like this box will be used for holding my gimlets in my tool cabinet instead of pencils :o(

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Great box. I know how it is with no shop time. I’ve done a few quickies too.

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I worrie dabout the glue as well. It’s very little surface area. My bottom is about 5/8” thick. That gave the base area a decent surface area and gave it some stablility. I used epoxy as it is a little easier to work with on the tiny sides. I’ve used TB II in the past and it worked fine, but that pencil holder was out of thicker cherry.

-- Jeff, South Carolina

Jeff, I hadn’t put in my bottom yet, I am using 1/2” pine since I want something soft for the gimlets to rest on. I also used TB II and 3 of the fours side held up fine after a night of setting up. One side still did not take, so I will try to reglue it when I glue in the bottom tonight. I just sanded it and put a coat of Tung Oil on it and will post pics on it later tonight.
Thanks again for your inspiration and ideas.

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