I called it a "spaghetti box" because the box looked like spaghetti - the wood grain - and it could probably be used to hold spaghetti. Other things it could hold: tennis balls. Today, I think it is holding a rolled up poster. So it is a wooden box serving the same purpose as a cardboard tube.
2010-08-12
More about back-in-the-day. I was not a good metal or wood shop student. But I think I was semi-creative. One of our woodshop projects was a box. Most kids made boxes that were kind of like a cigar box shape. I chose to make a long, slender box that is intended to be stood up. This is a remarkably counter-functional design - not much fits in there, and it is difficult to remove.
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