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Billiard Ball Boxes
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.
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)
 
Thanks for the nice comments.

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

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