Here goes!

Here goes! I would have said here goes nothing but Sapele is not an especially cheap wood here in the UK so actually here’s to the gap in my wallet!

It came off the forklift very roughly bandsawn but I have planed it all up. Nice and smooth!

After checking, double checking and triple checking that I marked everything correctly I cut the dovetails and pins for the back sides of the box. I plan to put in some quite thick 2mm splines in the dovetails later. I’m making this for my Dad who kinda lives splined dovetails.

That’s basically it for today, will hopefully be able to do more tomorrow.