How to make a box out of rest materials

 

This is a box for my niese's confirmation. It is made of rest materials from previous builds. It is made of birch and mahogany. The lid is a piece of old drawer, I got it from a friend. and I am ot 100% sure what it is. It was made by using a table saw and very few hand tools. It took about three evenings plus oiling to make this box.

 

 

 

So, what materials do I have...

 

 

 

  

Still measuring my rest materials and laying them out to have a good look.

 

 

  

This is how I got it through the planer. The piece itself was to thin so I put it on top of another board which have a little lip at the end. I think it is an IKEA shelf or something. I planed it to get all the old fiinsh of and get it flat.

 

 

  

I put a groove in the mahogany so the lid of the box can fit in it.  This is the edge of the lid of the box.

 

 

 

 Cut them to size, and lay them on to tape.This makes it easy to glue it togheter. DON'T forget to fit the lid in when gluing... Try not to get to much glue into the groves. The lid is ment to float inside the edge.

 

 

 

 Trying it out.

 

 

 

Gluing.

 

 

Gluing is finished, and it is time to give it a good round of sandpaper. I belive I used 240 paper.

 

 

 

  

 Time to do the miters and taping the box togheter. I have put a rabbet on the sides for the bottom of the box. You can see it on the mahogany side.

             This is an old inlay I made years ago. It was just put in to have a little bit more happening.

                                                                    Ready for sanding.

Oiling with Finishing oil from Liberon. It was put on with strong kitchen paper and sanded with the finest steel wool between layers. The last oiling is not sanded. Three or four layers should do it.

                     The hinges was just screwed on the backside of the box (due to lack of time...:)