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Permalink Reply by The Phrygian Kid on February 7, 2014 at 3:23am

Get and rag, put some plastic gloves on and rub super glue in.

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Permalink Reply by Maddog on February 7, 2014 at 3:34am

If you aretalking about wear in the middle of the box, i sparay all my boxes with 2 coats of Shellac then 3 or 4 coats of polyurethane.

If you are talking wear on the corners (I can't see where it's wearing from your photo) put box corners on all 8 sides to protect them. Looks good too :-) Like this.

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Permalink Reply by John Sawyer on February 7, 2014 at 5:53pm

Beautiful, inspiring work!

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Permalink Reply by Maddog on February 7, 2014 at 3:35am

Sorry, can't spell this morning. I'm a little under the weather :-(

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Permalink Reply by John Sawyer on February 7, 2014 at 3:57am

I've used spray lacquer successfully.   I wonder if stuff like Modge Podge would work . . . 

Paper covered boxes get rough.  I normally spend some time gluing down the corners and edges, or they start peeling.

John

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Permalink Reply by Richard G Caudill on February 7, 2014 at 1:01pm

@ John Sawyer  and uncle John .. I in a high humidy area of ala ,, and the Hodge Podge does a wunnerful job . I also just use plain shellac  or will use spray on clear lacquer

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Permalink Reply by 14 buck bass (aka antonio) on February 9, 2014 at 6:54pm

they sell this stuff at auto zone that goes on the front plastic bumpers of cars to protcet from rock chips and bugs , it works good too.

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Permalink Reply by Uncle Fred on February 21, 2014 at 8:35am

I did spray a few coats of lacquer on the paper box before I assembled it.  I think that's helped.  But, I definitely need to re-glue some of the edges.

Corner protection is going necessary, at the least.  I noticed some of the metal corners are made for rounded corner boxes.  This one has pretty square corners.

I'm hesitant to cover the box with film.

My wife's amazed that I could make something like this in a few hours that sounds so good.

Thanks to all for the info posted.

Fred

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Permalink Reply by John Sawyer on February 21, 2014 at 4:16pm

It's an awesome hobby.  So far, everybody I know with ANY musical talent wants one... feels good to be wanted.

Anybody have a good source for box corners?  I might just have to put another order in with Ben...

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on March 25, 2014 at 9:38am

Meh. Play it til it falls apart, then reuse the parts on another box. Playing wear is a badge of honor, as is every nick and ding.

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