Making a chipboard box 

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Thank you! The brown board is chipboard- medium weight, I purchased it from Amazon. The covering paper is decorative card stock, it is heavier weight than copy paper.

It's surprisingly strong...If forced it will rip eventually, but I've made several sets of drawers and other boxes a couple of years ago that are used pretty regularly and don't show any signs of splitting in the seams..you could of course glue the chipboard to itself and I've seen people use hot glue in the seams to help strengthen them.

Thank you. The ruler I use is a Martha Stewart 6x14in T-Square Craft Ruler.

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I glued it secondarily, when I folded the paper over the glue seeped into the corners some, but I did not intend to use the box for heavy items so I didn't reinforce the corners. I still have the box today over 9 years later. It holds some jewelry. I have made larger storage containers and did reinforce the corners of those boxes with glue because I intended to put heavier items in them, they have lasted many years too. They are pretty strong for paper and chipboard boxes.

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You can slow it down. might need to mute it tho as sounds strange. Go to the line of dots in top right, click on it. Look for the word quality, and you can pick the speed you want to watch it at. Hope that helps.

I made the lid 1/8 inch bigger than the box, but with the paper it was a very tight fit. If you build a box, you may want to consider making it 3/16 of an inch larger.

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The paper used was Tim Holtz scrapbook paper, however any type of cardstock would work to cover a box.

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nothing 015 Or you can even use fabric, a nice silk or felt, I took her idea and made sunglass cases, six to a box.

It is really according to which weight of chipboard you are trying to cut. This chipboard is a medium weight, think about stacking ~ 3 cereal box sides together, so it is a bit more difficult to cut than light weight(or cereal box weight) chipboard. You can cut through it using an exacto blade but you'd have to do it in layers. I cut it with a rotary blade and sometimes I have to go back over it a couple of times to cut all the way through. Hope this helps!

It's a medium weight chipboard. It's ~1/16 inch thick.