Bayonet Box

Cylindrical boxes originated from Greece also known as the pyxides. They were primarily used to hold cosmetics, trinkets, or jewelry. They were also used for incense and medical ointments. There are multiple uses for this box whether it be a storage box, but one thing it would be great for is a gift box. A simple, easy to create, yet unique gift to give. Using the lugs at the top the box shows no signs of its lock and is a beautiful mechanism.

The supplies you would need to make a bayonet box is

1. 11.8" x 11.8" in piece of 1/8 baltic birch plywood (Any wood work)
2. Wood glue
3. A laser cutting machine
4. computer (or laptop)

First, you go to festi.boxes.py and choose the bayonet box, afterwards, you'll have to modify the box's settings. Things like how big you want it and how many lugs/locks you need.

The "diameter" is the size of each ring of the box in mm(you will later stack all the rings to make the box).

The "lugs" are how many lock things you want on your box.

The "Alignment pins" is a small reference circle (Which you can decide the diameter of) so that you can stack the pieces on perfectly. The "thickness" is how thick you want the rings to be.

For the default settings, you will want to leave that alone. To test out your settings you can input what you want and then click generate to see how it would look.

Once that's done and you have your final settings you click download.

Secondly, you will want to go to RetinaEngrave. From there you will click on "software" and click "Try now".

Once you are in you will want to go to the top left corner which might say "muse-core" and if it does, click on it and change to "muse-titan"(If it is not already on muse-titan).

Once that is done you will want to go to the top left corner again click on the image icon and upload the file you downloaded from festi.boxes.py.

From then on, you will want to select the whole thing that pops up and click ungroup close to the top right (it'll be an icon of 2 squares). Select each piece and move it, you can copy and paste one of the rings and make as much as you can to fit the maximum amount to fit on an 11.8x11.8 in wood board.

To find out whether it fits on the wood board you can create a circle and make the x and y 11.8 just to see if it fits. Once you have confirmed that it fits, then delete the square.

You will now move on to creating the settings for the laser cutter. The laser cutter settings are confusing and there is a lot but the main things that are important are the speed and the power. If you added designs on the your box as I did than you will want to make a separate setting for them.

The power on the laser is exactly what it is how strong you want the laser to be.(recommended to keep power at 100) For the speed, the slower it is the deeper it will cut and the faster it is the shallower.

Now you will use a USB to put the file in, you'll go to the device, laptop, or computer select and you might have to change the settings once again but after that let the machine scan the board and start the cutting process.

Final step, now that that's finished cutting out our boxes, we can start with the assembly.

First, we take the ring with the lugs and glue that using wood glue with the smallest ring onto the top of the box.

Then get all the other regular rings and glue them together.

After take that and glue it to the bottom, once done with that, take the two left over rings with space for the lugs and align them together and glue.

Connect that piece to the box and make sure it is not glued to the cap.

Let it dry for at least 24 hours before proper use.