Custom Pen Boxes Made From Cigar Boxes | Repurposed
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- čas přidán 30. 06. 2024
- If you're looking for a fun DIY project and a creative way to store your fountain pens, follow along. In this video, I go step by step on how I repurpose old cigar boxes into fountain pen boxes.
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0:00 Intro
0:52 Rum & Eggnog Tip
2:08 Basic process
2:50 Router setup & tips
9:20 Sewing the liner
12:20 Finished Boxes
Your homemade ink, using rum and spices, is a great idea. You can even drink the extra.
The hardest part for me is finding the daggum cigar boxes. People must be hoarding them or something. Great idea!
Get a tube of fray check!
I have some nice cigar boxes. I am a newbie to the world of fountain pens. Nevertheless, I am a crafter, maker, or whatever you want to call it these days, and I want to try making one of these with cardboard, a cigar box and vintage velvet for the lining.
Great job Doodlebud! You have inspired me!
Thank you!
Lisa
My preferred method is finding a good old jewelry box from a thrift store, already has lining, got a big one for my fountain pens and a smaller for the dip pens, got small compartments for everything you need
Man just getting into pens… only have a pilot metropolitan with a med nib.. loving it! Great channel
Nicely done. Somewhat more sophisticated than my half a dozen mugs.
Well..... How fancy are the mugs?
@@Doodlebud Har. Not all that fancy but as I do like to buy a mug when travelling they include mugs from Vietnam, Iceland, and Switzerland. Fun, or at least funnish.
Handy for immediate use, but not as much for long term storage.
I don't like either rum or cigars, but the boxes got a thumbs up from me. As a Swede, I store all my pens in an IKEA shelf with a fabric box I can't remember the name of where I keep the pens in their original boxes. The pens I got without boxes I make origami style boxes for. I have an old phone box that just happened to fit a bunch of those, which then makes it about the size similar to other pen boxes.
I tend to keep a few too many pens inked at a time, resulting in that they stay inked a very long time. So I usually like the digging and cleaning and changing out my active pens whenever I run out of ink in one.
Of course you have to use ikea stuff! 😂 Are there even any other stores in Sweden? I should check out ikea, they always have cool little boxes & stuff
@@Doodlebud IKEA:s are pretty far apart, so growing up we had about 170 km to the closest one. Going there was an almost religious pilgrimage. So yes, for all other everyday needs, there are plenty of other stores. 😂
Thanks for the link to this. I think you must have made this not long before I started watching your channel. 👍🏽
I work at a cigar shop and this is pretty cool. We always get customers wanting our empty boxes. We end up giving them away
Cigar boxes are very cool looking with the different labels & graphic designs. Many uses for them!
I'm convinced that you are the same guy from the AvE channel. Your guys voice is almost identical, both Canadian, and craftsman. That would be one hell of an alter ego and id be so stoked if AvE was into fountain pens haha.
Lol, something tells me he wouldn't be too into foutnian pens
Doodlebud is CarpenterBud, EngineerBud,CreativeBud and all around CoolBud! You have great taste with the Kraken rum. If you put your eggnog ingredients into a blender, would it enhance the flavor? Thank you for your presentation. Take care.
The eggnog would get all frothy I think. My carpentry work isn't so great but good enough for what I need to get done for these boxes 😉
@@Doodlebud Personally, I think you've made a superb job! I def would order some of those grooved boards from you. Have you thought about selling them in the future?
Hmmm, the “give the man a cigarrrr” box use as fountain pen holders is really cool 😎😎😎! I don’t know if I’ll try it, but excellent instructions on how to 👍🤩. All the best for a wonderful Christmas to you and your family. GB DB 🙏
Hey good to hear from you buddy. Hope you have a great Christmas as well 🎄🎅
Genius, I'll be making some of these for sure!
My favorite style is the wooden cigar box, however I prefer the grooved board to stay in its rustic, natural form. Maybe with some brown wood stain 🤔...
But I know you can burn your logo into the wood with some pretty basic equipment. What do you think? It can be a much more affordable & a rather easier option (especially if you're planning on selling those babies & manufacturing them in bigger quantities). Love the end result anyways 🤗 !!!
If I get into making & shipping them they're be branded for sure. I have an old mini treasure chest style box I bought at a garage sale for $2 that I want to finish. Think it would be great just with wood and stain as well.
Wow - This is intense stuff which requires carpentry skills/craftsmanship, tools and of course Cigar boxes !
I’m someone with ‘none of the above’, so a $50 36 pen case is serving its purpose !
I don’t have a wood shop and/or fancy tools … but I think I’m gonna buy some foam pedicure toe separator thingies and hot glue them to a cigar box and drape them with some velvet , et voilà!
Give it a try 👍Hope it turns out great
Very cool. I converted an old eyeglass case to hold a couple pens.
Good idea 💡👍
Engineered Eggnog!!!
You won today's draw for the nib giveaway!
I had to smile at our typical Canadian measurement system, alternating fluidly between millimetres and inches. Lol
It's a way of life here 😅. Especially when you work in a machine shop and are constantly dealing with tooling and materials of all sizes. Ask a Canadian the speed limit & distance when driving, it's all KM. Buy a house and its in sqft. Buy bulk food at the store and it is in grams. Ask how much you weigh.... Pounds 😵💫
Hey DB. I started with the cigar box and Kaizen foam. Then evolved to a much larger flap top box from Michaels and again the Kaizen foam. Finally found an old beat up wooden engineers tool chest, refinished beautifully and added flocked pen trays from PSI which holds over 100 pens. I will definitely steal your routered tray technique. Love it.
Sounds pretty slick. Wonder if the router would cut the foam nicely?
@@Doodlebud You can buy those "heated knifes" (don't know the actual name) that cuts through foam like butter. I think the cutting tool on a router might make for a jagged edge since foam is softer.
Just curious about how to cut a nice U groove into the foam all nice & straight
@@Doodlebud The Kaizen foam is layered to remove by gentle manipulation with your fingers. I draw parallel lines 3/4 of an inch apart, lay out the pen centered on the line. I purchased 2 scalpels and a cubic butt-load pf replaceable blades and cut into the foam as close I as I can get to the pen without damaging my lovely instrument of ink dispersion. I peel out enough foam to allow the cigar / phallic shaped object of my affection to fit in snugly. Pen won't roll out of its cradle, great protection and safety.
Doodle bud you are a man of many talents. Loved this. Also, just realized you were Canadian by your speech. How bout that, eh?
Pure maple syrup blooded brother over here 🇨🇦
Cool! Your sigar shapes pens now have an appropriate home.
I tuck them in a night & do bedtime stories
Thank you. Wonderful ideas!
Is that you McGyver?? Brilliant video!
Gotta do something when you're awake at 1am
Brilliant!
Nice. I smoke cigars and have access to boxes. Well done DOODLEBUD!!!
The eggnog portion alone got you my like haha. The rest of the video was also good :)
Glad you appreciate the tip. I would say probably the most valuable part of the whole video 🥃
This is so great. I love your videos!
Thx! If you have access to a 3D printer you can make a tray that way too
I'm surprised nobody mentioned using contact cement (that I can see). It's more of a PITA, but wouldn't bleed through many fabrics.
Those look great!!! Nice work.
What a cool and clever idea! Cigar boxes are useful for all kinds of storage….I keep my makeup in some of them. Could also use unfinished wood boxes too…Joann fabrics has them. A cornice box runs about $20 but you can routinely get half price coupons. And I laughed at the adult beverage tip but damn that sounds right good!!!! There’s a bottle of we’ll aged Puerto Rican rum in my liquor cabinet calling my name now! Lol
I just picked up a balsa wood box with a window from Dollarama for, I think $3. It's called a memory box and the window is supposed to hold a photo. Just remove the piece of wood that is meant to hold the photo in, paint and you have a nice display box. If you don't have a router, look for floral foam and cover with felt. Also check out the tools section - they have some nice plastic boxes with sections for nibs, cartridges, converters, etc. These are $3-4 for small or large.
I've made a few similar boxes for gifts this year. I like decoupaging the outside with themed pictures... old maps, flowers, vintage labels, art, etc... I add some decorative trim and hardware if possible.
I'm far from creating anything decent with the router yet, so I use a Dremel and and a sheet of polystyrene for the inserts. They turned out great.
Thanks for the eggnog tip!
No clumps in the rum & egg nog is lovely
Thanks for sharing. I’m inspired to try making one. Wish me luck.
I've made one already. Keep it on my desk. I have a GIROLOGIO 24 PEN CASE for the rest of my pens that was gifted to me, and I still have lots of room.
Wonderful ideas sir. As a non-USA-ian I find “egg nogg” very difficult to appreciate.
It's pretty terrible on its own, hence the rum 🥃
@@Doodlebud rum makes everything better!
Oh, this is cool-
Pretty cool setup you have in there :). I don't have a router but I like those cigar cases.
Where do you get them from?
Personally I like to see my pens. So here is another idea if you want (or anyone else). I'm using the jewellery acrylic cases.
The best acrylic 5 drawer cases are at Muji store :) (hint on your last video; whenever you go back there) look for the 5 drawers one! The width is long enough to to accommodate pens as long as 15.4cm. And on length you can add up to 16 pens / drawer... so a box can hold up to 160 pens.
I use the thinnest dowels I can find at HomeDepot and thick paper (cheap water color paper sheet is perfect) to create my base and separate the slots; and then from Michael's store I buy the sheets of velvet-ish material with glue on one side and lay it over the dowels and base paper.
Results are pretty snazzy and I get to see what pens are where and in what drawer :). I have them put inside a bookcase with square shelf from Ikea with an LED light above them. Makes for a pretty view at night :).
I get them from cigar shops here locally. Sounds like a fancy setup you have 👍
@@Doodlebud Thank you!
Great video :)
Don't laugh. This is fantastic.
As a mechanic type... I'm scratching my head thinkin... I ain't doin all that to get a box... I got mosta the tools but the ones I don't is more than the box!
..wait do I want a box, or do I wanna make boxes? Hmm
I was looking into doing batches & selling but shipping would be murderous for what price point the box would fetch
Beautiful craftsmanship with ample attention to detail. Looks great.
Personally, I find that cigar boxes take up too much space. I prefer leather or fabric cases that hold from one to three dozen pens.
Is an Eggnog without eggs really an Eggnog? Seems more like a Milk Punch to me. The Brooklyn Eagle noted in 1873, speaking no doubt from experience, Milk Punch is “the surest thing in the world to get drunk on, and so fearfully drunk, that you won't know whether you are a cow, yourself, or some other foolish thing.” That's my kind of drink. 🥳 Cheers !
Very cool...take it up a notch and insert a plexiglass or lexian window ( since you have a router) so you don't have to open the lids to I'd the pens.
Yeah no window on them, but I kind of like the look. Gives people a bit of a surprise when I open the box up. But could maybe do it on one of the solid wood boxes as it has enough strength to hold up
Or just replace the whole top with the lexan sheet, especially on boxes that just gave the flat lid.
Nice. Good video, sometimes you can find boxes with the cigar inserts already in them. I have been doing this also.
I got one box with a velvet bed, but it's a big bulky one
@@Doodlebud I'm lucky, there a tobacco outlet down the road. So, I have a big selection of boxes.
Oh damn that's sweet!
Cool! One question: where do you get the cigar boxes? I'm not a smoker...but now I am a bit thirsty after watching "step one" of your project!
I just pick them up from local cigar shops. Hope you grabbed a refreshment
👍
Just a question from my "neurotic" room efficiency/mechanically disinclined mind, would you be able to fit one more slot if you moved over some slots more to the edge and/or left less room in between slots? I say this in all humility as i have no experience with such projects, just a question you sound like you can answer either from failed previous experimentation or actually knowing the dimensions of room to work with, just looks like there's JUST enough room for one more with tighter measuring.
Regardless, God bless sir, Merry Christmas & thanks for teaching me so much on your channel!
The spacing is about as tight as possible to keep the ridges from chipping & a smooth enough transition for the cloth. But on on of them in the video for sure, I coukd have for another goove if I laid out the spacing different. Just have to lay out first, then measure the offset from the centre then proceed with using my 1" spacers as in the vid
Wow, are these boxes the new giveaways 😅? The fine cigar fragrance might cure the wet Ahab smell...
The shipping on a box would be insane! Sometimes I pick up the cedar slices to really give it the cigar smell
Nothing but time can cure that.
I've been eyeing this idea for quite some time now, but as I totally hate smoking the smell drives me away from it, how did you manage to get rid of the smell? Or were the boxes already smell free?
I actually like the smell. Was sort of the appeal. I even have the cedar piece with some of them to enhance the smell. So no,.... they re not smell free 😜
Where does a non cigar smoker get empty boxes?
Amazon has some!
I just get empty ones from cigar shops. Some for free and others for like $5-7
@@Doodlebud When I was a kid, I used to go to the liquor stores and ask for them. Sometimes you had to pay ten cents or so for the heavy duty cardboard boxes.
Thanks for the replies
If you want some really vintage ones, eBay has an ample supply.
My comments keep getting deleted. Thanks for sharing this!
So strange! YT flags anytime someone puts a link in their comments is the only thing I can think of
@@Doodlebud that must have been it. I was trying to link to my pic of kraken since it is one of my favorites to mix, and share a link to 10 cigar boxes for $20 on Amazon
Spam bots always leave links in their comments. So any comments with links are flagged right away
I want to make these, but I don't have a router. 😭😭
Either did I. Got mine at the pawn shop
Say, what's that beautiful red and black marbled number?
I can't remember. That's either my Ranga Model 8 or my Osprey Pens Milano in Red Jasper. I have reviews on both, give them a looky loo
@@Doodlebud Thanks! BTW you should do voice over work!
Lol, I just had someone tell me that the other day! Hmmmmm 🤔
@@Doodlebud Same here, so I looked into it here in Iowa and everyone told me, "We just outsource those VO jobs to NYC!" Ummm....why CAN'T they be done here at home using native Iowan actors and artists? I'm a bit biter about that. ;)
Hmmmmm that's very strange. Guess it depends who you're inquiring with. I know there are CZcams creators that make videos that are always looking for people to voice over their videos.