Boite à coton tiges / cotton bud box / cotton swab box
Instruction
In your bathroom, use a wooden cotton swab box coated with white wax to store your cotton buds, and avoid dropping the cardboard box or plastic bag, and then play to the Mikado game to pick them up!
Delete the text to avoid wasting wood.
Arrange the patterns as close as possible to each other to optimize the wood surface.
All the parameters are in the Xtool Creative Space file .XCS, summarized here after:.
To laser cut the wood (with air addition=xTool M1 Air Assist) : Power=100% Speed= 3mm/s Passe=1
To engrave: Power=60% Speed= 50mm/s Passe=1 Mode Bitmap / Grayscale, Ligne per cm= 100 / engraving mode = bidirectional.
I use the xTool Honeycomb Working.
The picture of coton flower is already included in the .XCS file, but I give you the original .JPG file. If you include this .JPG image another time in .XCS file, you will have to clean it with in xTool Creative Space with Image File edit and the "Magic wand". It is easier to ungroup a pattern including a coton flower and to copy & past it in another area if you want more decorations on the box, because the picture already pasted on patterns is already cleaned.
If you use a wood thickness different than 4.6mm, you have to redraw the "square" on the patterns. The .DWG or .DXF files allows you with Autocad, or NanoCAD or other CAD software to redraw the "square crenelations" used for assembly, but you have to keep the general dimensions of the patterns. After you export from NanoCAD the file on .DXF format, and you import the file in xTool Creative Space.
The two front legs of the box are smaller than the two rear legs in order to make an inclined plane so that the cotton swabs roll towards the opening.
Use fine sandpaper to sand the cut edge of the wood in order to remove the black color created by the burnt wood.
Use white wood glue to glue the assembly, and hold it all together with clamps or rubber bands. Let dry a full night.
For assembling of upper top with lower top, use the locating drawing engraved on one face (lower face) of the upper top. Notice that the engraved coton flower is made on the opposite face of the upper top, considering that the lower top is glue on the lower face of the upper top, where locating are engraved.
Use special white wax (ceruse) to coat the wood in the direction of the fibers. Let dry, then polish with a woolen cloth to shine
Ready to clean your ears!
Here is another creation but with a noble wood: solid walnut, coated with beeswax then polished with a woolen cloth.