Hello and greetings from my shop to yours! About 2 months ago I had a customer ask me to make name plates for their new office. I did, and they were very pleased with them. Then last week I was asked to make two business card holders and twin trifold brochure holders for one of them. Of course I said yes (haven’t learned to say no). He wanted them attached to the name plate for his desk. I stopped by his office and picked up his name plate and fretted the entire weekend on what it was going to look like and how I was going to incorporate it into an existing piece.
Before you look at the pictures, yea it isn’t perfect. I had to incorporate a few things I had not attempted on my LongMill; pocket cuts and angles. The angles worked out pretty darn well. The pockets were not 100% square to the edges. I also had a strange thing happen. I was cutting the pockets from the same piece of walnut. In vcarve pro, it showed the back pocket cut first. When I carved it, somehow it managed to carve one, but the other one carved ahead and in “air”. I ended up back in the software and just carved the back one. Probably didn’t explain it appropriately but I worked through the problem. I ran them through the table saw to get the 21 degree angle. I used CA glue and tight bond 3 to secure without nails. The back was just some scrap I had which I used the same 21 degree angle on. Once again used CA glue and tight bond 3 to secure. Coated with oil based polyurethane. I am sure he will be very happy with the outcome. Thanks for looking!
As a 35+ year printing industry professional in the US the standard business card size is 3 1/2" wide by 2" tall. Some like a portrait presentation where it would be 2" wide by 3 1/2" tall. Then there are folded business cards were you will want to leave an extra 1/8" somewhere because of the varience in the folding process. Then their are the alternate materials such as plastic or metal cards. Ugh!