Nespresso Box
A gift box that holds 20 Nespresso original coffee pods. The box has two layers, and the layers separate on a cut that follows the contour of a decorative coffee bean.
20
Kitchen
Files Included (15)
box edge front magnet placement.svg
850 Bbox edge rear hinge placement.svg
990 BBox front.svg
3 kBbox lid hinge and magnet washer holes.svg
1 kBLeft box end.svg
51 kBlong divider template.svg
815 Blower bean positive.svg
983 BNespresso Box instructions.pdf
30 kBpivot arm template.svg
1 kBRear bean.svg
1 kBrear clearance cut.svg
1 kBRight box end.svg
6 kBshort divider template.svg
601 BSupplemental Instructions.pdf
20 kBupper bean positive.svg
946 B
Materials
Sides: 3/8th thick hardwood. Front and rear, 9.75 by 3.25; Ends 3.75 by 3.25
Top and bottom: 3/8th thick hardwood, 10 by 4
Top shelf: 1/8th thick plywood; 9.375 by 3.375
Dividers: 1/8th thick plywood (need several 1-inch strips)
Bottom shelf: 1/4 thick plywood; 9 by 3
Coffee bean inlay and rear support: 1/4 thick hardwood
Pivot arms: 3/16th thick hardwood
Hardware for pivot arms: Solid brass Chicago screws 11mm cap 9.5 mm post (got mine from buckleguy.com); M4 by 8mm brass pan-head bolts
Lid hinges: 5mm by 15mm barrel hinges (got mine from Lee Valley)
Magnetic lid catch hardware: 1/4 by 1/10 rare earth magnet, 3/8ths magnet washer (got mine from Lee Valley); #4 by 1/4 flat head screw
Titebond 2 glue
5 minute epoxy
Tools
SO
Workstation
1/8th bit (down cut preferred)
1/16th bit (with CL at least 3/8ths; down cut
preferred)
Larger clearing bit for inlay negative saves some time (I used 12 mm)
table saw with 1/8th blade (ideally crosscut blade) Whatever you need to make accurate cuts for a mitered box (I used a miter sled).
Instructions
The heart of the project is a mitered box. You end up with two layers, but the starting point is a single box -- after the box is glued up, the layers are separated via cuts with the SO and a table saw. If you haven't done a mitered box before, I'd make a few simple ones before you take on this project -- I needed a few repetitions before I could make a simple box I was satisfied with. But this project isn't a whole lot harder than just making a box. I've got project instructions in the PDF that's in the project files, and there is a new supplemental pdf to deal with the January 26 note below. NOTE AS OF JANUARY 26, 2025: I added a new file called "rear clearance cut." This addresses an issue when the assembled box is opened -- the upper half of the "bean" on the front box needs a clearance cut on the bottom of the rear of the box. One way to deal with that is to just hand-cut the clearance with a rasp (which is what I did). It doesn't need to be an exact fit -- the rear "bean" hides the clearance opening when the box is closed. The new file lets you cut the clearance opening with SO. After you have made all the cuts to separate the box top and bottom (including a straight cut on the back of the box), fixture the box bottom in the workstation, with the rear of the box facing up. The lower part of the rear clearance cut file should align with the lower edge of the box, and the upper part of the file will be about 1/8 inch above the upper edge. The only portion you need to cut is the curve, and the file is set up (the extra 1/8th inch) so it eases into and out of the cut.