A biggish box
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Over the weekend I decided to build a largish box to hold some of my more less used items, mainly things like sand paper, screws, some tins of stain, shellac etc. So far I have made the box and kick plate. the box measures 2 foot long by 1 foot wide by 11 inch deep made out of 1×6 pine. The kick plate is dovetailed around the bottom and is 1×2 maple. The bottom of the box I made a 1/4 inch groove and used the tongue making attachment on my plough plane to make the grooves for the bottom. I just plugged the groove holes with a handcut plug. Now I’m planning on a lid and am not sure what to do. Should I make a similar kick plate around the top and make the lid flush with that?
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You must be logged in to view attached files.18 December 2012 at 3:43 am #5078I have seen every manner of dovetailed box you can imagine and surprisingly they have mostly had a solid wood top because it was the pre-manufactured plywood days. More surprisingly is the fact that they may have shrunk a little but they often had no cracks caused by the shrinkage. Every book I know would say don’t or you can’t put a solid top crossways to the fixed and rigid box and yet something tells me that that is what would look best. Have you thought about taking the box into where it will live the most and placing a piece of solid wood on top of the box and leaving it for a week or two. After it has acclimatised, fitting it to the box and letting the lid overhang with a roundover like we did on the clock top and bottom. I usually don’t go past 6″ to do this, but I never had a problem. I have also seen old tool chests even 20″ wide with a rebate around the top edge and the solid pine top recessed into that rebate. And then again I have seen the top simply glued and nailed to the rim of the box and then trimmed out as you say with a repeat of the toe board. I guess it’s your call.
Well I finished it up tonight, I couldn’t find a wide enough board so I laminated two pine boards with a strip of maple I had extra.
Danish oil applied and some handles finished it up. Now to fill it up with stuff! I think dovetails are my favorite type of joint. I think I have a dozen boxes in various sizes laying about now.
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You must be logged in to view attached files.20 December 2012 at 12:12 am #5290Dave- very nice job sir. Id be proud to own a box like yours.
However, I have a question. When forming a lid like Daves, would it be best to tongue and groove the boards together ? What is the best joint for this kind of glue-up ?
Brent
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