Lathe Cabinet Build #3: Making the Cabinet Box
Finally posting the next installment on making the cabinet. After gluing up the panels, I decided to use oversized box joints to make the box for the cabinet. Instead of cutting them by hand, I decided make a router jig that would take the inaccuracy that typically happens when I try to cut them by hand. I adapted this from a jig I saw in a Woodsmith Magazine video. With this jig you get perfect fitting joints without any tuning of the jig. You simply cut the jig parts to the width you want for the fingers. On one side it forms the cutout and on the other the finger for the mating board. For these, the middle 3 fingers are 3” with 2” between and 1.5” fingers o...
