Sweet!

Check out the new tissue box covers soon to be listed at Lucy Hardware.  They took some time to get the pattern correct and make the correct cuts, but I think they turned out very well. 

I generally rely strictly on math to make cuts for patterns in constructing projects like these, however, I found with these boxes that the math didn't always work out right.  I didn't have to be off much on a piece for it to compound and ruin the design.

I eventually went to the "doing by the old eyeball" method.  It was a little nerve wracking at first, but it worked out well.  I suppose I like the math method because it is logical and I feel secure in what I think the end result will be.  It works for me every day. But it failed again and again on these boxes.

Many more years ago than I care to admit, I done a lot of projects by the eye.  Heck, I didn't have tools that were accurate. I didn't even have squares or measuring devices that were accurate. I was pretty comfortable eyeballing it, drawing a line, and making the cut.  It always came out close enough that the belt sander could fix it.

Now that investments have been made in real tools, and we have spent a lot of time using them and learning to trust in the results, it is pretty scary to go back to the eyeball method. Oh, I am sure I could figure out where I went wrong with the math, but with the results above, I think I will carry on with the eyeballing.