Half-Assed Holidays: Wooden Box Day

Wood Box Day


Even if you won't be with us at Wheaton Labs, you can celebrate all our half-assed holidays with us! This year, the day after Thanksgiving is Wood Box Day!

On Wood Box Day! the boots (and you!)  can kill a bunch of birds with one...box.  (But not actually kill a bird, that is just rude.)

One goal is to try to replace plastic bins with wooden crates and boxes



A cool thing you can try is to make a box that will almost hold water

Some may even try to make some dovetail joints

Some boxes will be quick and some will be very nice.  All boxes will have their part to play.

Unlike wooden spoon day - wood boxes made at Wheaton Labs will remain with the bootcamp.


[center]However a box is made, make sure to document the progress and earn your Wood Box Crate PEP BB!

Stephan wrote:
Wood Box Day 2022 Edition...!

After a hearty lunch of Thanksgiving leftovers, we all began our Wood Box Day projects.

The end goal was to replace some of our plastic containers with wood boxes and/or other natural materials. Planning is an important part of projects like these, and once we all agreed on our goals for the afternoon, we referred back to these plans to make our ideas a reality.





Caleb spent his afternoon creating a box for all the measuring tapes scattered about the Workshop, Classroom, and Library. His was highlighted with hand-made dovetail joints.





Grey, Daniel, and Fred worked on a prototype for wooden boxes to hold our event dishes. Here's Grey and Daniel adding in a few additional blades to the table saw so they could accomplish some fancy cutting and joinery.





Julia and I teamed-up to create a replacement or two for the plastic bins that hold the seat cushions for the mass bench in the Classroom. She practiced with a wide variety of hand- and power-tools for this project, and we were both very pleased and proud of the end product. The lid comes next...!







Final verdict: Wood Box Day 2022 was a success!

Thanks for reading, and enjoy your day...!