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• "How To Make Boxes" -- By Martin Carbone and Arnold Tubis. A 66 page primer on the design and construction of boxes for prototypes and low volume production at any workspace. You can now efficiently make exact-size storage, gift and shipping boxes at any table or workbench with simple easily made tools.
• Download a .pdf of our 66 page book / -- or order a hand assembled comb-bound book that will lie flat at your workspace for $24.95, including shipping. Order from our contact address.
• Download these .pdf pages, they are free: 1-5, 6-10, 11-15, 16-20, 21-25, 26-30, 31-35, 36-40, 41-45, 46-50, 51-55, 56-60, 61-66 / They tell just about everything we know about boxmaking. Includes a number of pages on Origami construction by Arnold Tubis. The book and the tools it refers to are all made in the USA.
• Table Of Contents for "How To Make Boxes" by Carbone and Tubis

The links below tell about the boxmaker line and its various uses.

• Boxmaker Originale -- Basic instructions for making telescoping boxes
• Mini-Boxmaker data sheet
• Patents
• Boxmaking by TAPPI -- This six page .pdf tells how corrugated sheet and boxes are made. TAPPI is the leading technical organization of the pulp, paper and converting industries.
• Phase box -- make one -- This three page .pdf gives plans for a "phase box" which is essentially a fold-up box for protecting books. It is from the Syracuse (NY) University Library, Department of Special Collections.
• Pillow boxes -- This four page .pdf tells how to make pillow boxes. You will have to refer to this "curvemaking report" (a 12 page .pdf) which has all sorts of information on generating curved surfaces by scoring cardstock.
• Pillow box art
• Typical origami box
• Background Information on Martin Carbone (Inventor of the boxmakers)
  
• Boxmaking layouts and plans --- FOCUS on Cardstock Boxmakers which has about 25 links that should be of interest to modelmakers. There are also some free models linked from there -- some of them might be duplicates from this page
• Michael boxes
• 3-part box
• 6 x 2 x 5 reverse tuck-top box
• 6 x 9 envelope
• Drawings of architectural elements
• Bibliography
• Box houses
• Box building instructions
• Boxes by Michael
• Carboxes
• Boxmaking book -- 48-page (.pdf) -- See the .HTML Table Of Contents and sample the book by clicking on the page links at the Table of Contents. Do not confuse this book with the larger 66 page book discussed above. The 66 page book includes information on origami boxes.
• How to make boxes
• Larger boxes