I liked the video, and it looked easy to do, but....
I didn't like the actual box. If I was going to carry my pencils and dice in a box, I want something that was also big enough to hold the character sheet without folding (that poor sheet gets enough punishment as is).
Unfortunately, I couldn't find any craft boxes that fit the bill. So I widened my search and eventually found a tabletop box easel (look on Amazon if you are interested, they are all over the place and I've seen the price range from as little as $18 to as much as $306). The box already had dividers in place.
I took off the easel attachments (if you look, you can still see the screw holes on the lid) and mostly followed the instructions from the YouTube video. Except I don't own a wood burner and didn't have any particular interest in owning a wood burner. Also, my handwriting sucks, so I figured anything I tried to do by hand wouldn't work out well. I tried some transfer print-to-wood methods, but none seemed to work. So I just ordered some letter-sized transparent stickers and ran them through the printer.
(The best transfer method I found involved running wax paper through an inkjet printer and immediately applying the wet side of the paper to the wood and scraping the back of the paper using something like a credit card. The transfer from the wax paper to the wood worked perfectly in tests. Unfortunately, the same couldn't be said of our printer's ability to print to the wax paper, as large portions of the image were missing as it came out of the printer... but what was there transferred perfectly, FWIW, so maybe you'd have better luck.)
I *LOVE* the result. As a carrying case, the box is big enough to hold several sets of dice, pencils, erasers, scratch paper, an unfolded character sheet, and even the Player's Handbook and Xanathar's Guide to Everything. Everything I need as a player in one handy place, just grab and go. Opened up, the character sheet fits nicely in the top lid, and the big open section on the bottom is a perfect dice tray (the PHB and XGTE generally sit under the box while I'm playing... don't worry, we are all wearing masks).
The only drawback, if you can call it that, is the box does not open flat so it does create something of a "Player Screen" that is narrow but tall. That can make seeing anyone sitting across from you difficult.
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Current D&D Characters: Kromen Flintfist, Hill Dwarf Order of the Scribes Wizard/Armorer Artificer Eiphrok, Half-Orc Oath of Glory Paladin/Draconic Bloodline Sorcerer
I just wanted to share my latest project because I'm thrilled with how it came out.
It started off with watching a video online for making your own wooden dice box for just a few dollars:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=b2ta9fskgw0&fbclid
I liked the video, and it looked easy to do, but....
I didn't like the actual box. If I was going to carry my pencils and dice in a box, I want something that was also big enough to hold the character sheet without folding (that poor sheet gets enough punishment as is).
Unfortunately, I couldn't find any craft boxes that fit the bill. So I widened my search and eventually found a tabletop box easel (look on Amazon if you are interested, they are all over the place and I've seen the price range from as little as $18 to as much as $306). The box already had dividers in place.
I took off the easel attachments (if you look, you can still see the screw holes on the lid) and mostly followed the instructions from the YouTube video. Except I don't own a wood burner and didn't have any particular interest in owning a wood burner. Also, my handwriting sucks, so I figured anything I tried to do by hand wouldn't work out well. I tried some transfer print-to-wood methods, but none seemed to work. So I just ordered some letter-sized transparent stickers and ran them through the printer.
(The best transfer method I found involved running wax paper through an inkjet printer and immediately applying the wet side of the paper to the wood and scraping the back of the paper using something like a credit card. The transfer from the wax paper to the wood worked perfectly in tests. Unfortunately, the same couldn't be said of our printer's ability to print to the wax paper, as large portions of the image were missing as it came out of the printer... but what was there transferred perfectly, FWIW, so maybe you'd have better luck.)
I *LOVE* the result. As a carrying case, the box is big enough to hold several sets of dice, pencils, erasers, scratch paper, an unfolded character sheet, and even the Player's Handbook and Xanathar's Guide to Everything. Everything I need as a player in one handy place, just grab and go. Opened up, the character sheet fits nicely in the top lid, and the big open section on the bottom is a perfect dice tray (the PHB and XGTE generally sit under the box while I'm playing... don't worry, we are all wearing masks).
The only drawback, if you can call it that, is the box does not open flat so it does create something of a "Player Screen" that is narrow but tall. That can make seeing anyone sitting across from you difficult.
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Laugh at life or life will laugh at you.
Current D&D Characters:
Kromen Flintfist, Hill Dwarf Order of the Scribes Wizard/Armorer Artificer
Eiphrok, Half-Orc Oath of Glory Paladin/Draconic Bloodline Sorcerer
Very nice, it looks amazing.