For the minor differences, I evened out the pieces by clamping the blocks together and running my router down the mismatched side using a laminate trimming bit. Because they were all the result of building matched pieces for my telescope, they were pretty closely matched in size. I matched the individual pieces of stock together for size. A little work with two pairs of pliers yielded a nice supply of little magnets! You could probably find them in nametag sets at an office supply store. I always keep these and throw them in my materials box. Very often I lose my nametag (it usually hooks on something and gets knocked off without me noticing - the life of an astronomer is rugged), but the magnetic back falls in my pocket. However, my nametag at work has a magnetic back on it. Neodymium magnets seem to be the thing (they are strong), but finding small ones proved difficult. (2) Magnets - I wanted the boxes to be securely shut without external mechanisms that protrude and catch on things. I found enough scrap pieces to make the 4 boxes shown here - a good spectrum of sizes and shapes to play around with. The boxes are two pieces that form each side of the dice box, so I was looking for pieces that were at least 3/4" thick. I first found pieces of wood suitable for the project, then designed around them. (1) Wood - I didn't start with a particular box design in mind.
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