First Mitered Box

That is a great box and will fit in perfect at the reenactments. Good job.

-- Use it up, Wear it out --------------- Make it do, Or do without!

Great looking box , great job.

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Very nice job. How large/small is this box?

-- Ed "Real happiness is one that you share."

Nice box, good start. Yes, the angles have to be perfect, and the length of the sides also has to be spot on. You had a tougher job of it because of the height of your box. If you want practice, do some boxes that are almost flat, like 1.5 inches thick. I little more forgiving that way.

Did you key the corners, I can not tell? A simple miter is asking a lot of wood glue, you are sorta gluing end grain that way.

How did you clamp it? I love my band clamps for boxes.

Good work, do some more!!

-- Dan V. in Indy

Good job Don
Love the hardware ,is it off the shelf or made for this box ?

Kiefer

-- Kiefer https://www.youtube.com/user/woodkiefer1/videos

looks like it will fit in at the battlefield,are you adding handles to match the hasp?

-- bowtie,.....jus passin thru....

NIce work ! I really like the color. Should work out well to appear to be an old box.

Great looking box Don,
Pete

-- Pete G: If you always do what you always did you'll always get what you always got

Ed – the box is about 21 inches wide by 10 inches tall by 10 inches deep by 11 inches high. bowtie- I usually just put small wooden handles on these type of boxes, but for this one I think I’ll just let it go as is. Dan, no keys, just end grain glued as you said, well also the plywood is glued in. You can see how I clamped it in my blog, but as I said there I’ll only use band clamps next time.

-- Don, Royersford, PA

keifer – i get my hardware from VanDykes Restorers. The hasp is blackened steel, the hinges are from Acorn.

-- Don, Royersford, PA

Beautiful box. Thanks for sharing.

-- Jiri