Box for my 45

[Harlan Barnhart]

I made this box a while back (read: several years) but I never got around to making a proper lid.
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I thought a raised panel would look nice so I laid out the bevels with a marking guage.
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I tackled the cross grain first. I chiseled out the waste on the back to avoid blowout.
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A regular bench plane works fine for this.
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I roughed out the rabbets with a marking knife and a chisel then finished up with a shoulder plane.
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[Harlan Barnhart]

Next I laid out the tenons on the handle end and wasted out between them with a fret saw.
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I decided to make a cross-grained piece across the lid. Partly to fill the miter gaps at the corners and partly to counter any warping, like a breadboard on a table top. First I ploughed a groove and then chiseled out a the mortises.
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I gave the edge mortises a little extra room to expand. I glued only the center tenon. I might drill and peg it later.
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Now my 45 has a nicer home.
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I always get a little blood on my projects. I decided to leave it there for history.
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[Gary Hodgin]

Nice box!!!!

[Andrew Gibson]

I always seem to leave a little blood at some point on a project.
I like the dovetails with the mitered corners. I recently started cutting these myself. I love being able to run through grooves in all 4 sides for the bottom panel.

[Jon Toebbe]

I always get a little blood on my projects.
That's why so many of my projects end up painted. :)

[Jim Koepke]

For all the "blood, sweat and tears," it is a nice box.

jtk

[Mike Brady]

We are on the same page on a box for the trusty #45. My is not as original as yours as it was a plan from a magazine for a "school box". It is about the size of yours, or maybe a little larger. It was a good dovetailing exercise and the pine was more challenging than the mild hardwoods I usually dovetail.186575