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I suppose I could have titled this ... something like ... "Making a simple project as difficult as possible ..." 
As I mentioned in a previous thread => Planing Long Leaf Pine ... I bought some 100+ year old long leaf pine that came out of a cabin in Arkansas a while back with the intent of building my granddaughter Zoey a toy box for Christmas (she's 4). As I mentioned in that thread, the wood besides being old shiplap was covered in a jillion tacks, tar paper and sail cloth that had to be removed before planing ...
First a pick (poor quality phone camera) of what the wood looked like after tack removal ...
The 2nd pic is what the planed wood looked like after it was planed
The 3rd pic is what the individual end/side pieces look like after cutting the box joints and fitting. These individual pieces are 9" "high" and there will be two of each stacked, doweled and glued together to make the box part 18" deep total.
It was at this point that I was informed of a fairly ugly error ... in my mind and with only cursory research I decided the box should be 36 x 24 x 18 ... when I showed the "stacked" pieces to my wife she immediately informed me it was "WAY WAY TOO BIG" (she did in fact speak in capital letters!) ... after licking my wounded designer's pride ... I had to agree it was pretty big for such a little girl ... and gritting my teeth, cut off one end of each board, and re-cut the box joints so that the final size is 32 x 18 x 18 ... a much more reasonable size!
The 4th pic shows the eight pieces now doweled and glued (there is a 3/8" dado cut on the other side for the bottom) ... the dado for the bottom required stopped dado's on the end pieces on the router table and then I was able to use the table saw to cut the thru dados on the longer sides (the sides were too long to easily manage on my router table --- or so I thought --- in retrospect probably would have been fine).
The 5th and 6th pics show the "box" dry fit with and squared before gluing.
Once glued I will start the more (to me) enjoyable work of finish. I'm thinking of trying what is apparently an old technique using boot wax (red) .... I heard about this when doing some research on chairs my daughter bought ... sounded like an interesting thing to try ... I'll experiment on scrap and see how it goes ...
So ... building a box is really pretty easy ... unless you make it hard ...
As I mentioned in a previous thread => Planing Long Leaf Pine ... I bought some 100+ year old long leaf pine that came out of a cabin in Arkansas a while back with the intent of building my granddaughter Zoey a toy box for Christmas (she's 4). As I mentioned in that thread, the wood besides being old shiplap was covered in a jillion tacks, tar paper and sail cloth that had to be removed before planing ...
First a pick (poor quality phone camera) of what the wood looked like after tack removal ...
The 2nd pic is what the planed wood looked like after it was planed
The 3rd pic is what the individual end/side pieces look like after cutting the box joints and fitting. These individual pieces are 9" "high" and there will be two of each stacked, doweled and glued together to make the box part 18" deep total.
It was at this point that I was informed of a fairly ugly error ... in my mind and with only cursory research I decided the box should be 36 x 24 x 18 ... when I showed the "stacked" pieces to my wife she immediately informed me it was "WAY WAY TOO BIG" (she did in fact speak in capital letters!) ... after licking my wounded designer's pride ... I had to agree it was pretty big for such a little girl ... and gritting my teeth, cut off one end of each board, and re-cut the box joints so that the final size is 32 x 18 x 18 ... a much more reasonable size!
The 4th pic shows the eight pieces now doweled and glued (there is a 3/8" dado cut on the other side for the bottom) ... the dado for the bottom required stopped dado's on the end pieces on the router table and then I was able to use the table saw to cut the thru dados on the longer sides (the sides were too long to easily manage on my router table --- or so I thought --- in retrospect probably would have been fine).
The 5th and 6th pics show the "box" dry fit with and squared before gluing.
Once glued I will start the more (to me) enjoyable work of finish. I'm thinking of trying what is apparently an old technique using boot wax (red) .... I heard about this when doing some research on chairs my daughter bought ... sounded like an interesting thing to try ... I'll experiment on scrap and see how it goes ...
So ... building a box is really pretty easy ... unless you make it hard ...
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