OT - cartridge box - second one

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Well, I had so much fun making my first cartridge box (viewtopic.php?f=1&t=36748) that i decided to do another. I had another 50 cases of .32 S&W to load up, and decided to do these with a smokeless powder. I went with 1.3 grains of Bullseye (thanks Sixgun!).

Here's a picture of the new cartridge box (top and bottom) along with the completed one I previously made:
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A shot of the top of the box. I got the design idea from a Cheyenne Cartridge Box (background), altering it to my tastes. The print design is similar to the one I did previously.
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I like the background, but won't use it again on small cartridges. Might work for .44 or .45 caliber ammunition, since this will be in a larger box, but the print is too small on a box for cartridges of the size of the .32 S&W.

Here's the details on the reload. Just used the same details as on the other box.
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This time I changed the font (not sure if I like it - looks better in person than in the picture). Also added print to each side of the box. Here's one of the ends:
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Took some advise from the last post too:
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And here is my shout-out for the load recipe!
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Finally, I decided to change the name of the manufacturer:
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Work in progress. Learning a bit each time I do this - and it is fun!
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Those are really cool, nice job again. 8)
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Now you're just showing off. :D Really good there,Jay.
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Those are great! Are you going to try a rifle box? Rifle cartridge box, that is.
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So pretty.

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THOSE BOXES JUST TICKLE THE DICKENS OUTTA ME. HOW COOL.
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Looks great. Before you do very many, you may want to correct the spelling of "commercial". :oops:
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Jay, those boxes are great! I like the way you personalise the labels, the options are endless. 8)
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Enough already!

Now you need to tell us how you did the printing. :mrgreen:

How did you get the print to be upside down and vertical on the two side flaps. Or did you print it in five takes?

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WAY COOL !! :shock: Love them! :wink:
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Joe Reilly wrote:Looks great. Before you do very many, you may want to correct the spelling of "commercial". :oops:

Those rare misprint boxes will be worth a $ ton in the future :D

They look great, wish i was smarter nuff to make some!! Keep the pictures coming! .DT
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The boxes are great! But, why print the date you loaded them? When you shoot them up, and reload them, you'll have to make another label. Just saying.
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Darned Cool!

Gonna have to try that.

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8) 8) 8)
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I'm estatic! :D It is one of, if not the coolest item I have even seen in my 57 years as a tax paying citizen of the U-nited States of America :D I give you extreme credit for a job well done. :D I really like the time you spent on the originality of the font from the last half of the greatest century this country has ever experienced. :D

I'm really impressed and I will guarantee that load in print as long as the guns they are shot in are quality Smith & Wesson, H&R, even Iver Johnson and not some foreign junk or suicide specials

Its a light safe load which generates only about 550-600 fps and I have used that load several thousand times in top break S&W's from the 1880's on.


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Now thats neat!!!
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Joe Reilly wrote:Looks great. Before you do very many, you may want to correct the spelling of "commercial". :oops:

Oh, for Pete's sake! Duh!!!

Yep, I'll correct it in the future!!! :oops: :oops: :oops:
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damienph wrote:Those are great! Are you going to try a rifle box? Rifle cartridge box, that is.

I am planning to. These are fun to make - and fun to figure out. Very theraputic (sp?)!
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rgates wrote:The boxes are great! But, why print the date you loaded them? When you shoot them up, and reload them, you'll have to make another label. Just saying.

I thought of that with the second one - just after the fact! :oops: For these, I'll print up stickers to cover the information with "fresh" data after I shoot them. For future boxes, I'm going to put a stick on the inside top of the box.
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rbertalotto wrote:Enough already!

Now you need to tell us how you did the printing. :mrgreen:

How did you get the print to be upside down and vertical on the two side flaps. Or did you print it in five takes?

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Printed in two takes. The first was the color, and the second was the printing itself.

I created this in Excel again. On the first tab I made the box design - the red and yellow pattern. No word yet. Took me several trials and errors to get it to the final size.

On the next tab I printed up what I wanted to be on the box. For the parts that were reversed (flipped) or turned sideways, I simply took a screen print of them right-side up, copied it to "Paint", cut it out and recopied it to Excel. This allowed me to flip the wording so it would print correctly in one pass.

I did this with every "section" of the box. I then copied and pasted each section onto the red and yellow background, sizing them to fit into the space. Once I finished that, I made a copy of the page. I took one copy and removed all the printed sections. I took the other and "whited out" all the background color. I did this in two steps as the picture of the .32 round wouldn't print right if I tried it all at once. It was then just a matter of printing the colored background, and then feeding the same page back into the printer and printing the printed section - which since I copied it from the one I worked up, was exactly right the first time.

Instint box cover with printing on all five faces! :D
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Way over my head pard!! I am glad someone can figure all that stuff out. :D
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