The top and bottom may just separate by themselves, or you may need to help a bit with a shop knife along the top edge of the outside groove. Skyline by DzinerStudio. He also did restaurations on exquisite antique furniture, amongst others also for the Royal family. That means the "falling stock" aspect of the box is the largest section. Mirko Posts:

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The content contained on this site is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute professional advice. Tom Ryan Posts: Before assembling the box, rout a groove at the same distance from the top for all 4 sides, on the inside of the box.

Now assemble the box. You'll need to tape and brace the cut sides after you do a couple of sides, so the box doesn't collapse as you rout. Then carefully remove the tape and braces. The top and bottom may just separate by themselves, or you may need to help a bit with a shop knife along the top edge of the outside groove.

Let me know if this isn't clear. Tom, Thanks! Actually, that might have been the trick I was looking for! I tried a couple of ways of doing this on the assembled box, and couldn't get it right. I could do this with the OF on the MFT, which would help make sure the box stays put when I'm routing the outside groove. Thanks again for pointing me in the right direction.

I've used that that way of making boxes in the past. Works great. The box has to be square or the lid will only go on one way. I made a couple for 3x5 recipe cards. Wim Posts: I have used another methode. For the body: Take a strip of wood, width is height of the body and length is circumference of the box with extra for cutting.

Take a strip of 3 or 5 mm of plywood of the same dimensions. Glue together with the plywood shifted to the top by the thickness of the wood. For the lid: Take a strip of wood with the same length and a width of the height of the lid.

Take a strip of plywood withe same length and a width as the lid minus 2 x the thickness of the wood. Glue together with the plywood in the middle of the strip. Glue body parts together. Glue lid parts together. Glue bottom and top in the rabbets. If this is instruction is not clear, I will make some sketches. Quote from: ejantny on May 30, , AM. My uncle, a furniture maker, showed this technique to me about 30 years ago. At that time I was not very interested in woodworking.

Otherwise I would have spent more time in his workshop. He also did restaurations on exquisite antique furniture, amongst others also for the Royal family. JavaScript seems to be disabled in your browser. For Making Wooden Boxes For Sale In Uk the best experience on our site, be sure to turn on Javascript in your browser. One of the slickest ways to get the lid of a box to fit the box perfectly is to make them one and the same.

You assemble all six sides of a box into one piece — and then cut the lid from the box. It is Making Lids For Wooden Boxes Qq easy and will give you a perfect matching top every time. Start by determining how deep you want your lid to be.

When you have that figured Plans For Making Wooden Boxes out, step over to the table saw and set your fence to the proper distance. Keep the narrow "lid" segment of the cut between the fence and the saw blade. That means the "falling stock" aspect of the box is the largest section. Set the blade height for the cut so that the saw teeth stand just a bit proud of the thickness of the box wall. This helps prevent disfiguring saw marks on the box walls adjacent to your cuts. I prefer to make my first cuts on the narrow ends of the box.

Then move to one of the long sides.

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