{"id":550,"date":"2020-05-23T09:57:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T14:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/?p=550"},"modified":"2020-06-23T17:17:12","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T22:17:12","slug":"sake-cup-box-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/sake-cup-box-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Sake Cup Box Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It spent a month in the furo<\/em>, and now it’s ready to show off. This was one of my big projects last month, and it has been on my to-do list for a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back at the SCA 50-year anniversary event, we purchased a dozen sake cups for a very good price from a merchant. Since a dozen is one box of cups, the merchant threw in the box so we could safely transport the cups home. This was just a cardboard box, so we have been keeping the cups in a plastic bento <\/em>box ever since. The cardboard dividers between the cups got destroyed at Pennsic last year, so I made some new dividers from cherry, but still sized to fit in the plastic bento<\/em>. Now, I have made the final box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Sake Cup Box<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The top of the lid is made from some rough-sawn lumber I salvaged from Mr. Arimoto’s workshop during the restaurant furniture project. The walls of both the lid and the box body are made from off-cut cherry strips from making maurdai<\/em>. I was having some trouble gluing the strips to the lid and floor pieces, so all the joinery is secured with brass escutcheon pins. This should also make it a little more durable. It’s finished with food-grade walnut oil, which is why it had to spend a month in the drying cabinet. That oil takes a really long time to cure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s what it looks like with the lid off:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sake Cups in Box, with Dividers<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The dividers are neither glued together, nor are they glued in. If I need this box for something else later, they will lift right out. The floor of the box is some resawn and book-matched maple that I had in the shop. I didn’t have enough or thick enough cherry left over. It started as 4\/4 (roughly 1-inch thick) maple, so I resawed it to roughly half-inch thickness, then sanded it smooth and even.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Empty Sake Cup Box<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I am really super-happy with the way this came out. It is significantly larger and heavier than the old plastic box, but it is also significantly classier. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It spent a month in the furo, and now it’s ready to show off. This was one of my big projects last month, and it has been on my to-do list for a while. Back at the SCA 50-year anniversary event, we purchased a dozen sake cups for a very good price from a merchant. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,3,5,31],"tags":[268,269,32,291,276,293,23],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-projects","category-sca","category-woodworking-projects","tag-boxes","tag-cherry","tag-projects","tag-sake-cups","tag-storage","tag-walnut-oil","tag-woodworking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":581,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions\/581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}