See, never heard of that. I used syncolube for our old drawers. Works as well, but might not last as long. Going to buy some paste wax. Thanks! 
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Beeswax! Looks great 
Schneewittchen is moving to a bigger home. I finally convinced my wife to not rent out our garage and storage room (which has been converted to a flat by the previous owner) but let me use it as a workshop. Schneewittchen and I are now going from ~6m² to 20, maybe more. To not mess up the cables at the new place, I put some coloured dots on the wiring before disconnecting it. Just to be sure. And now I might finally not be too lazy to update her with the tape measure trick. Updates on the new workshop are going to follow in the coming weeks.
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Congrats on getting a bigger workshop! Happy daddy, happy life!
I finally had some spare time. French cleat going up.
When I am done with a few more different boxes I will create a thread in the “Things you have made” section and make the plans available for everyone.
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Oooh, nice concept! Now you’re giving me ideas 
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Nice French cleat implementation. I like the tabbed boxes on them.
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It’s been a little over a year now, and Schneewittchen has been used a lot. One of the best things that I ever did was to build her. I learned about 3D printers, electronics, mechanics, and first and foremost a lot about CAD and CAM.
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First real inlay work. I hope it is going to work. WIP pictures:
Who can guess what it is going to be? 
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A circle!
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“Take my love, take my land, take me where I cannot stand. I don’t care, I’m still free! You can’t take the sky from me…”
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@RobP I created the “normal” inlay first, you can see it further up. If I now cut out where it is supposed to go it won’t fit.
I therefore ran the program a second time with 5mm as a starting depth (if I had just run it a second time by just setting 0 5mm lower, it would have destroyed the first cut since Z travel height is only 3mm). It then takes of 5mm more, so it will fit a dephts of 5mm. Sometimes it cuts through 10mm of material, but never with the whole endmill, so that was okay.
This is the cut in the board, 5mm deep, so for the inlay to fit it has to be double the depth.
One thing I did not consider was the tip of the 60° endmill: it left some material standing in the one on the left below (there was also some in the big circles, I ran the program for those a second time with automatic depth limiting). I marked some (former) problems with red circles.
I manually removed some of those with a chisel, but it would have just been better to leave the depth of the engraving bit to auto anyway, because none of the cuts is wider than 10mm, so it cuts the pockets deeper and would get rid of my problems. I don’t think it would make the glueup more unstable.
I hope this was more clear now.
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Aha, so youre doing a full 3D carve, not “faking” it with a 2D tool path and offsets. That makes a lot more sense and now I see why the process is relatively simple.
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