This is a small, pine toolbox I built to hold my inlay tools, which are typically small and hard to keep organized. As this is "shop furniture" it was fun to build as a quick and dirty hand tool project. There are couple kind of quirky design elements driven by an interest in solid DT and M&T joinery:
1) The top is the same design as Chris Schwarz used in one of his toolboxes. I really like this design with a proud panel solidly captured both in the groove in the surrounding frame and by overlaying that frame. Also like the surrounding dovetailed frame. Very solid, simple looking, but kind of fancy upon closer inspection.
2) Secondly, the asymmetry of rails and Stiles in the side frame and panel assemblies: the top rail extends the full width of the box to provide end grain for dovetailing the front. Stiles are morticed into the top rail but extend to bottom of the box to again provide end grain for dovetailing the bottom, which means the bottom rail is shorter than the top rail I can't decide if I like the way it looks – maybe top-heavy?, But it did make for solid joinery that was fun to build.
Cheers, Mike
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