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Box Turning - Must Haves?

Bob Lerien said:
I use a set of old guitar strings I got from the kid down the street. Six different thicknesses,
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Note that when a smooth wire is or gets too slick to get enough friction for a good burn simply use small piece of sandpaper to rough it up, maybe 320 or 220. Pinch and pull the wire through, turn the wire a bit and repeat.

The best burning wire I ever found is thin galvanized steel lockout-tagout wire,
used decades ago to fasten safety and info tags to industrial valves and switches and such.

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(Live life to the fullest. Turn nice handles for your friction burn wires! :))

These wires make clean, fine lines.
I don't like fat burn lines on the kinds of things I make, especially tiny boxes like these needle cases/pill boxes.

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JKJ
 
Michael Perez said:
Hello thank you so much I really appreciate all of your recommendations and help me to improve and save time in many mistakes.
please could you tell me what tool did you use for the bottom and continuous side of your boxes.
greetings
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Totally agree with Tom on the curved bottoms. MUCH easier to retrieve things from the box.....especially smaller boxes.
 
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