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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #351435 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 64 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780486461731
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Customer Reviews

Excellent book for the Low Price
Being interested in origami boxes, and seeing the low $5.95 price for this book, I bought it. I am not at all disappointed. It teaches 18 boxes w/variations, ranging from very easy to intermediate level.

For beginners, Rick teaches the Nik-Nak Box (from 8.5"x11" paper), The Printer's Box and Harbin's Box-In-One ( a small square box with a lid from one piece of paper). He moves on to the A4 Thin Box (again, from an 8.5"x11" paper), which is a long skinny box with a lid, all from one piece of paper. From there he moves on to teach Boxes w/Lids, Boxes w/Dividers, the Flower Box, a Shell Shaped Box, a Heart Shaped Box, the Peace Crane Box, a Triangle Box with a Rose on top, and my latest favorite, due to its simplicity, the "Pacchetto Regalo box", one that closes onto itself and locks, all from one paper piece. He finishes the book by teaching a 5-sided box, complete with 3 lid variations. All in all, this book is a deal for the small amount of $$$ it costs.

Not boxes I would tend to make again
I'm a big fan of making origami boxes, and have many of Tomoko Fuse's books on them like Origami Boxes and Fabulous Origami Boxes. So I couldn't pass up another book on boxes particularly at such a low price! But I was rather disappointed in the boxes that this book included. First, most of these are boxes folded from a single piece of paper. While these are kind of neat just to show off, it just does not result in a box with the kind of structural integrity that the modular style of boxes that Fuse does...and that really are necessary to actually use the box for anything. It also makes it far more difficult to make larger boxes...both in terms of getting paper that is large enough, and also increasing the problem of a strong structure to hold up to items in the box. There also were a lot of models using A4 rather than square paper, a size that is not readily available in the US. I'm never that fond of having to cut my square paper which is of course what most origami paper comes as. Having said that, the boxes are diagrammed well enough and I had no problem for the most part following the directions. I just didn't get boxes at the end that I would have much interest in making again.

Excellent illustrations and instruction
Rick Beech has done an excellent job getting across to the reader what he wants us to do. Unlike many of the origami books (and I have many), he actually explains in clear language and precise illustrations what we have to do to get those wonderful little boxes out of a piece of paper.
I would recommend starting right from the first, most simple box and advancing through the harder ones at the back of the book. Even the very simple boxes are worth learning to fold. That way you get to understand how to read the directions and make the folds correctly on a simple project. More advanced boxes follow the basic ones, but none so challenging that this first time folder could not figure them out given enough patience and paper. I really enjoyed this book and have almost folded all of the boxes in it. I was a little perplexed by the use of the camel for the symbol representing the paper becoming 3D?? Did I miss something there?
But all in all it was a great book!!