Long winded.
For 4 years, I have been buying my wife an InkVent calender. This consists of an individual, small bottle of custom colour ink for each of the first 24 days of December, and a larger bottle for Christmas Day.
The challenge was to create a suitable box to contain them all and to allow for expansion going forward.
Enter Michael Tyler’s Bookpile Box, a project that he documented for Vectric 5 or so years ago.
I have done two of these previously. One strictly following Michael’s instructions and files, and another modified to hold my wife’s custom pen collection.
This one is quite a bit different from those two. The bottom 3 books are individual trays that nest into one another, each divided into two partitions holding 24 small bottles. The next 3 books are, in fact, one tray that holds the taller Christmas Day bottles and some odds and sods. The top book is simply a lid that also nests into the tray immediately below it.
The “open” box shows one-year’s-worth of the small ink bottles.
There is no hardware.
I re-sized and modified Michael’s files in VCarvePro 12.5. All the pieces were carved on a Sienci Long Mill Mk1.
My wife did all the painting, which clearly makes the piece. Otherwise, it would simply be bland MDF.
