Jim Koepke
09-01-2022, 1:58 AM
With a few new tanged, for a brace, twist bits acquired and a bunch kind of over flowing in a tool box drawer a new place was needed for a bunch of bits.
This is just a quick build of a box without any special joinery. Eight flat head #4 screws were used to hold it together.
A piece of scrap alder, actually a longer piece of firewood, was re-sawn and slots plowed to hold a bottom:
485270
The sides and ends were done in a haphazard manner since this isn’t to be a show piece. The sides were checked and the marking gauge was set to the fattest edge.
The ends were sawn along the gauge lines to rabbet the end pieces for ease of assembly:
485272
After sawing a batten was clamped to the piece along the edge of the saw kerf and used to guide a shoulder plane:
485273
Drilling pilot holes is an involved process without one of the modern pilot drills to drill for the threads, shank and head all at once:
485271
It is easy to drill first for the threads, then the shank followed by a countersink for the head.
The screws were installed in one end, the bottom slid into place. The other end was drilled, screws installed and the drills set in:
485269
It is right at home under the rack of braces next to a box of auger bits:
485274
Often when making a simple project like this my mind goes deep into thought on other ways of solving a need. An epiphany struck for tanged bit storage that is too good to not use in the future.
That is for another day.
jtk
This is just a quick build of a box without any special joinery. Eight flat head #4 screws were used to hold it together.
A piece of scrap alder, actually a longer piece of firewood, was re-sawn and slots plowed to hold a bottom:
485270
The sides and ends were done in a haphazard manner since this isn’t to be a show piece. The sides were checked and the marking gauge was set to the fattest edge.
The ends were sawn along the gauge lines to rabbet the end pieces for ease of assembly:
485272
After sawing a batten was clamped to the piece along the edge of the saw kerf and used to guide a shoulder plane:
485273
Drilling pilot holes is an involved process without one of the modern pilot drills to drill for the threads, shank and head all at once:
485271
It is easy to drill first for the threads, then the shank followed by a countersink for the head.
The screws were installed in one end, the bottom slid into place. The other end was drilled, screws installed and the drills set in:
485269
It is right at home under the rack of braces next to a box of auger bits:
485274
Often when making a simple project like this my mind goes deep into thought on other ways of solving a need. An epiphany struck for tanged bit storage that is too good to not use in the future.
That is for another day.
jtk