Pimping my boxes

[Tengu]

Storing my leatherwork kit in wine boxes, the sort with sliding lids

the double one is very helpful; Im gettin another.

But how best to make more durable?

Im considering corners, but the wood?

wax or varnish?

 

[Dogoak]

If it was me, i’d oil them.

 

[Broch]

Durable?

Wood only really deteriorates if it's damp, and your leather will have spoiled long before the wood gave way. For basic storage, in a dry environment, I quite like both the aesthetic and practicality of bare wood

However, if you mean you want to provide a level of protection for the leather from water, then you'll want something that has no chance of contaminating the leather such as a bee's wax and oil mix. But, if that really is what you need, I'd be packing the leather in plastic bags first anyway.

The thing I have to protect my hides against is rodents - and wood is not the best storage space for that

 

[Tengu]

This is to carry my kit about in, and keep it organised.

`Durable` as in bash proof, not weather proof.

Needless to say, I have lots of beeswax!

 

[Nice65]

Those wine boxes are made of thin Pine panels. Furniture wax such as Briwax and brass corners like this sort of thing? I googled brass box corners.

Beeswax melted with a little bit of Turpentine, dash of Linseed. Lots of recipes out there.

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[Broch]

Ah, makes more sense. Corners, as she and you have said, then maybe leather straps screwed/riveted/stapled around the base and up the sides . I'm not sure any external wax/oil treatment will make them more 'bash proof'.

TBH, I'm not sure of the style box Tengu is describing so maybe I'm way off.

 

[Nice65]

Ah, makes more sense. Corners, as she and you have said, then maybe leather straps screwed/riveted/stapled around the base and up the sides . I'm not sure any external wax/oil treatment will make them more 'bash proof'.

TBH, I'm not sure of the style box Tengu is describing so maybe I'm way off.

Flattish box, so 6 or 12 bottles lie on their sides, supported by slotted together wooden half round cutouts to stop them moving. The cutouts are chuckaway, but the boxes have a recessed sliding lid. They’re a bit like cigar boxes, but bigger and sliding lids instead of hinges.

 

[TLM]

Surplus metal US ammo boxes, if the seal is intact nearly waterproof, rat proof anyway.

 

[Tengu]

No, not as attractive.

And Nice65, those are crates. (But still worth having).

 

[Wander]

What about a lovely bit of decoupage with butterflies and unicorns and things like that?

 

[Tengu]

I dont think it would suit me.

But the Leatherworkers box in Edinburgh museum has a Celtic spiral design carved on it.

 

[Tony]

If it's a leatherwork box i'd reenforce/protect with leather, it could look great and we know that leather is tough