Project 8 - Simple pine dovetailed box.

Nice box, this look like hand cut dovetails, very nice.

-- Martin ....always count the number of fingers you have before, and after using the saw.

Very clean workmaship Richard!

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Very nice Richard. I really do favor the functionally clean lines of it. Sort of reminds me of those nice Japanese tool boxes. Well done.

Are those hand cut dovetails? very nice box!

Nicely done. Pine is surely underrated. It deserves more respect than it gets. And, your use of dovetails here is the perfect complement to the pine. Dovetails on a box are often out of place, or overkill, or just unnecessary, but here you’ve made them work beautifully… and with fine craftsmanship.
Roger

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Excellent work! Did you size this so that the sides and top are based on dimensional lumber? e.g. 1×6s for the sides and 1×8 for the top?

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Well done.

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Nice looking joinery

-- Don, Royersford, PA

@vakman:
It was sized to fit my workbench. I have a split top bench with a ~6 inch gap between the tops. These boxes fit between the bench tops and their height is set to be flush to the benchtop(with the box top removed). The length of the project needed to be either 1/3 or 1/4 or 1/5 the length of my bench. Aesthetically and functionally I liked the size of these, which are about 1/4 the length of the bench.
I demension my lumber by hand, so whenever I can I try to find materials close to or at the finished thickness. In this case the sides are 5/8 or 6/8 thick. All this material came from the home depot down the street.

-- Richard B, Birmingham Alabama

Richard,
That is a clean, simple, well executed design. How did you execute the rabbets for the top?

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Great Box, Richard! I really like the lid.

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@ lysdexic:
The rabbets were done mainly using a shoulder plane. I have a router plane and attempted to use it first but found it harder to control and so I switched to a shoulder plane, which worked very well. I scribed the width of the rabbets with a marking gauge, then began passing over it with the shoulder plane. After the first one I added a spare board to act as a fence, which speeded up the first 1 mm or so of the rabbet depth. After the first mm or so I removed the fence and guided the plane freehand.
For the last rabbet I tried a different approach: I crosscut the margin of the rabbet with a backsaw then chiseled out 90 percent of the waste and cleaned it up with the shoulder plane. That was probably the fastest if the several methods I attempted.

-- Richard B, Birmingham Alabama

Cool.,I just wondered if you had a moving fillister.

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It came out very nice. Pine can look great if it’s treated right as you have done here.

-- Mike, an American living in Norway.

Nice straight forward simple design. I like it.

-- John, Phoenix-AZ