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My daughter is a music teacher, and we jointly make gifts for her students each year. She also runs two extramural music groups – ukulele and marimba. In the recent Eisteddfod, her TVC Ukulele Society achieved an A++ grading as well as Best in Category, so we decided to make them some gifts for their achievement.

We decided on stands for the ukuleles that could be easily dismantled to be stored flat in the ukulele bags. Hinges would’ve made the folded stands thicker, so we decided to go with a slotted fit-together approach. We looked at various ideas on YouTube and the closest suitable concept was from cardboard. No details were given, so