How to make hard wood boxes

What size do you want to make?

Dovetails are problematic since they require a vertical fixture and mounting boards two at a time, and only cutting two boards/one corner at a time, and taking things a bit on faith since Carbide Create can’t model undercuts:

There are a number of other options for joinery, one which is termed “The simple box”:

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I’ve tried a number of different joinery techniques:

and see:

I’ve been working on a simpler technique:

If you’ll let us know:

  • what size box you wish to make
  • out of what thickness stock
  • what features you would want
  • what sort of joinery you wish to use and what tooling you would cut it with

and we will walk through working up a design with you here.