A box Project

Need a lot of grooves made. To house both the lid's panel and the bottom of the box...PLUS a groove for the dust seal...Best tool I have for that?

Is a Stanley No. 45. Set up with a 1/4" wide straight cutter...Then figure a way to hold the parts still, long enough to plough the grooves needed..

Yes, it IS screwed down to the bench....this is afterall a WORK bench, NOT some Dinning Room table top..1/4" x 1/4" groove, set 1/4" up from an edge. turn the part around..

and do the other edge....including the longer sides...

So far..that is 8 grooves done... only 4 more to do..

Except..this one has to go here....and the short rods on the 45 will NOT reach that far...
We have ways..

The Stanley 45 also comes with a set of long rods...simple enough to switch out

There is to be a groove milled on the outside of this box, that barely overlaps this one...to form a dust seal.

I also spent a bit of time, to size the panels to match the grooves...then add a rebate all the way around..

Can not do a full dry fit...would never get it back apart...

Spent this morning doing a final fitting of the panels...trying to avoid them being too tight...even trim them a bit..before a glue up could happen, this morning....

Stay tuned...one more groove to mill..tomorrow..