Ticket to Ride wood insert

I recently consolidated our Ticket To Ride game with a [custom foamcore insert].  While I was mostly satisfied with what I created, looking at some of the fantastic examples on Reddit’s foamcore subreddit gave me an itch to go back for an improved version.

Here are a few chunks of firewood left over from a fall camping trip last year:

Here is what is left after getting resawn:

Insert a small detour here to build a box joint jig, largely based off this excellent example:

Jig in hand, time to crank out some boxes!

The wooden block is sized to exactly fit the interior dimensions of the train car boxes.  The recess with the eye hook is a little handhold and a handle to let me get the block back out.

This was to support the box while I used a chisel and sandpaper to clean up the box joint fingers.

For the train cards and tickets, my holders are also dispensers.  There are small risers in the bottom of the card trays to make it easy to the cards out.

The grand reveal, these can be clicked for full size images.