Size a wooden tea box in Easel around the packets you buy.
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Start from a blank workpiece
The tea packets sit in a shallow, open plywood box: four upright walls meet edge to edge on a flat base. Glue holds these joints together while clamps keep the walls aligned; there is no lid, hinge or other hardware. In Easel, first draw a 6 × 3½-inch base for ¼-inch plywood. Add two 6 × 2½-inch long walls, then two 3 × 2½-inch end walls. Set each part to cut around its outside edge through the stock.
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Stand the walls on the base, with the two short walls between the long ones, then glue and clamp the joints. That leaves a 5½ × 3-inch interior and 2½-inch-high walls. The recording shows all five parts laid flat, not the makers’ dispenser or spline joints. These are example dimensions: measure your wrapped packets and actual plywood thickness before resizing the parts.
A tall dispenser separates packets behind four access openings without using counter space. A lidded tabletop box keeps one small tea selection together and can move with the cups. For either layout, check a wrapped packet against the usable interior, not just the outside dimensions.
Tea boxby Frantisek MacaFrantisek’s birch-plywood dispenser has four packet openings stacked vertically. The shared project contains the shaped panels and opening outlines, but no written assembly or wall-mounting instructions. Plan the fixing method for your wall separately; the photographed installation does not establish which screws or anchors to buy.
Box with Spline Jointsby Jeremy RichardsJeremy made this box to hold tea. His shared layout includes the four sides, bottom, lid and small spline pieces. The project lists hard maple; his instructions describe using two woods and machining half-inch stock down to 10 mm. The joints depend on that thickness and the measured cutter diameter, so changing wood thickness means adjusting the mating parts together. Add glue, clamps and your chosen finish; no hinge is required for the separate lid.
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From the maker’s instructions
Jeremy’s project includes the glue-up sequence in step 6, “Assemble.” Its discussion is readable without login; sign in if you want to ask about his box.
“Now add the sides one by one until they are all in place and then clamp the box in both directions.”
Project notes by Jeremy Richards: read the source.
From Box with Spline Joints by Jeremy Richards.
Ask a questionFor a dispenser, the opening must let you grasp a packet when the stack is nearly empty. For the open-top design, check that your fingers fit beside the packets before settling on the inside width.
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