Here's something different. Vox pen box repair.

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I decided I needed a nice pen box to keep my collection contained. I ended up settling on a vox 24 pen box but I wasn't going to throw down $300+ on one! I have pens to buy you know! I found one on eBay with slight damage to one corner so I bought it at a deep discount. Easy fix from the pictures. Once I received it though, the rosewood veneer had busted out of the back and the hinge was completely loose!! This was going to be some work! I contacted the seller with pics but it didn't really go anywhere. I decided to drop it and just fix the case. The problem was the box was not really made of wood but fiberboard. Pretty much just pressed paper. I was at least hoping for some cheap solid wood but nope, fiber board! What a pita to fix. I used a mildly flexible 3m epoxy called hysol to fill the corner using some clear plastic as a frame. Easy fix. The back though, I had to remove the chunk of veneer and fiber board and file it down. I put it back together with wood glue and clamped it over night. Then I went to work with the hysol and sandpaper! What a pos this box is! I would highly recommend staying away from these after the intimate experience I had with how they are built. Once the hysol set up, I went to work forming the corner and sanding the back of the box flat. The "foot" of the box was not even close to flush with the back of the box so I had to sand through most of it to get a flat plane. I was planning to paint the foot and back of the box gloss black so imperfections would show if the patch was not well finished. I lost track of how many hours I have into fixing this box. Eventually though I finished it using a duplicolor gloss black car wheel paint. Great paint!! Very easy to work with and very difficult to screw up if you put all coats down in an hour. I still need to color sand it out but overall it came out ok. Total pain though! I'll post some pics of the final box tomorrow. It's dark outside right now you savages!

The damage to the back