Thread: Custom razor storage boxes?

Does anyone here make custom boxes for their razors? I'm really excited about getting into restoration as a hobby in the spring, and as I was reading the thread in "General" about using locking humidors, etc. for razor storage, I was thinking how neat it would be to make a little box for said razor.

I am not at all handy, unfortunately, and if I were at home I'd visit Lowe's or Home Depot or something and talk to someone who knows about wood. Don't really have anyone like that here though, so I thought I'd ask...what type of wood would make a good box (or maybe just box liner)? I'd like to make a little box or boxes which lock shut, so they would need to help dry the razor, I'd imagine.

One thing that puzzles me is the humidor suggestions -- my dad smokes cigars and I do not, but it seems that humidors help maintain the cigar's freshness by both drying moist air and...wetting? humidiating? whatever, dry air. It seems like for a razor you would conversely just want to dry it out as much as possible.

Another thought that just occurred to me is making the box out of whatever looks neat and engineering a place for a silica gel packet, perhaps in the top lid of the box...hmm.

Any thoughts to go along with my random rambling?

I don't know anyone who does it and I would need a lot of practice to get up to that fine a level of craftsmanship. Unfortunatly the big box tool guys won't have any wood that is suitable, unless you like plywood. You would want to look for a specialty lumber retailer or order online.

I can describe the humidor thing though. The wood in a humidor is a great magnet for moisture and that keeps the humidor eavenly humidified when there is a water source in the box to initally provide the humidity. If you keep the box dry it would help dry out any remaining dampness on a razor. Also a humidor is often the only source of cool furnature grade boxes (sometimes locking) in manly styles. most other boxes of a comparable size are for jewlery and feminine in style.

I do like the gel packet idea that a good one.

Vladsch used to make them, although I don't know if he has time anymore. The two I got from him are pretty plain (that's the way I ordered them) but very well made. Some of his more exotic ones are mind-blowing.

any pictures of some of his stuff out there? I'd love to see it.

Check these guys out. http://www.tomway.com/

Gary

veeeery nice!

Here ya go, Tom. Check these threads...

http://straightrazorpalace.com/showthread.php?t=6434

http://straightrazorpalace.com/showthread.php?t=6325

http://straightrazorpalace.com/showthread.php?t=5539

http://straightrazorpalace.com/showthread.php?t=5035

that orta do it...

Originally Posted by garythepenman

Check these guys out. http://www.tomway.com/

Gary

You fountain pen guys think you know everything!

Great website...thanks for sharing!

RT

awe F$#@ Bill I just ruined my keyboard with drool, if I ever can craft wood that pretty I'll do anything I need to to make it my living. What a gift.

by the way I have seen some of your metalwork but it is too different from what I identify with, but wood I love wood, I can work wood, just not at this level.

Talk to Vlad. See if he has any extra time to make you a box. BEG if you have to.