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Paul Porter

Billiard Ball Boxes

I got this wild hair the other day (well maybe a couple of months ago) to make snap-lid style boxes from billiard balls. I bought several sets off of eBay for cheap. They are regulation 2.25" dia. balls made from phenolic resin. This stuff is hard on your tools. I was constantly sharpening. I used a cup chuck to hold the ball while hollowing. The 5 ball has a black acrylic finial, the 8 ball has a holly finial and the 10 ball has an African Blackwood finial.

Thanks to Jeff Lavine for his great tutorial for making snap-lid boxes. The article was in the winter 2005 edition of Woodturning Design.

As usual, all comments welcome.
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pencheff
Very nicely executed and so very clever!

ONE of these days I'm gonna come up with an innovative idea like this... which everyone is going to want to copy.

:) (guess I'd better start scarfing up all the billiard balls I can on ebay before everyone else does)
 
Paul Porter
Thanks for the nice comments.

Greg, eBay has more than enough billiard balls to go around. ;)
 

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