Hello and welcome to the first project in my Free Online Woodworking School. It's fantastic to have you here! In this short video, I will explain the structure of the course. These are also summarised in the points below.
Hello and welcome to the first project in my Free Online Woodworking School. It's fantastic to have you here! In this short video, I will explain the structure of the course. These are also summarised in the points below.
This list compiles all of the tools that you will need to complete the dovetail box project! All buttons will take you to my page on Kit where you can read more of my thoughts on the tool and purchase it if you want to.
In this video, I will show you how to attach the base of the box accurately. It's very easy at this point to inadvertently blast a screw through the inside or outside of the box and be left with a massive clean up operation. This is how you avoid that from happening.
In this video, I discover that the lid of my box is incredibly twisted. But instead of re-doing it and pretending nothing happened, I show you how to go about fixing the problem. In addition, you will also learn how to accurately thickness and size the lid to fit within the box.
In this video, I will show you two methods of producing the rebates to locate the lid. While there are many ways to produce a rebate by hand and machine, this video details how to create one using a shoulder plane and a rebate plane. In addition to this, you will also learn how to fine tune the rebates for a superior fit.
In this video, I will show you how to shape the finger pull to remove the lid of the box however this stage is largely up to you. If you would prefer to put a handle on the top of the box instead of following the steps detailed in this video, please feel free!
The plinth is the final part of the project to construct before sanding and finishing and it's quite a complicated part! It's purpose is to hide the plywood base of the box and finish off the bottom of the box neatly. Firstly, we will be cutting the long rebates. Then in later parts I will show you how to mitre the corners, attach it onto the box, and chamfer the edges.
In this video, I show you how to accurately mitre and attach the plinth to achieve a perfect, seamless fit. I do this by constructing a 45 degree shooting board using scrap material and a sliding bevel set to a 1:1 ratio. It may sound complicated, but I explain everything thoroughly in this video.
In this lesson, I will show you how to cut and shoot the material to size as well as share a foolproof method to marking out the components on your box.