An Attempt to Replicate a Simple Tool Box
What I thought would be a simple little project has now turned out to be anything but simple. My thoughts were to reproduce an old tool box of mine and give it to my son as a gift. He always loved that old box, as did I, but since it has been in my possession he has only been able to view it from afar. At first glance I saw that it was thin with mitered corners, old hinges and a simple hook and eye latch. As I began to reconstruct the box I noticed that this wasn’t just handmade dovetails but they were dovetails with mitered corners as well as a rabbited edge for the top and bottom. So I began to jump into a project that I had no idea just how involved it would be to reprodu...
