WWA Info Exchange

Well, I decided to get off my butt and make a tutorial on the latest series of boxes I am making.

These boxes are easy to make, look great, and have a huge margin for error!


First, pick out the piece of wood you want to use. These boxes are 9x13 which is not the "golden mean" ration, but they are built on the ratio of the square root of 2 = 1.41414 (approx)

The wood should be 4 quarter, which means it should be, but won't be one inch thick. closer to 3/4" is what you get, if you are lucky, you do get very close to one inch, but that is soooooooo rare.


See "choose wood"

I picked this nice piece of walnut that I already used for one box. Mark of the length. for this size you want 45", the sides will be 44" but you have 3 x 1/8 kerfs, and a little left over to be safe


See "Mark of the length"

Then cut to length. I used my new Kapex


See "CUt to length"[/url]

See "CUt to length"

Next, rip to the size in height that you want, this was alread 2 1/2 so it worked out well.


See "Rip to size"[/url]

See "Rip to size"

Since we are going to cut a bevel on the sides of the box, we do not have the need to use the band saw to resaw it to width, nor the planer. (saves us from making some errors)

now it's time to cut the grove (dado) for the bottom. I use 1/8 walnut ply for all the bottoms of my boxes, very easy.


See "Cut Groove"

After the groove has been cut, turn the piece over and mark out the sides. I like to make 3 sides "flow" so I usually start from the left hand side of the wood and mark off the left side of the box. That way the front has two "flowing" sides.


See "Mark off the sides"


DON'T FORGET !!! now is the time to sand the inside of the box. Do it now before you cut the miters because if you sand after you cut the miters, you may mess up the corners, But as a matter of fact, in this box it doesn't matter because they will be covered, but it's a good habit to get into



See "Sand the inside"

Now cut the sides to length, making sure you get the right sizes so the box will be square !!


See "Cut sides to lenghth"

Now cut the miters. Since I got the Kapex, it's a joy to do it. I used to do it on the table saw and it was a pain !


See "Cut miter"


How is this for a tight miter joint ????????????



See "Great miter"

This is the worst of the miters on this job, a bit off
but not bad !


See "worst miter"

Size up the bottom of the box


See "size the bottom"

Now we are ready to glue it up!



See "ready for glue"

I hope to get more pics and info next week.

Nice.

I esp. like the tip about sanding.

Duan

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Duan Packard
Kerrville, Texas

dum vivimus, vivamus

Thanks for posting this. I'm just heading down the box path so this is really useful. No fair, having a Kapex