I've often used this wooden box to take
these ramekins with some desert on them
to my brothers along with some granola
and some cream. So, now I want to make
a nicer box out of some figured maple
that was given to me as firewood,
and it's got a really nice grain pattern to it.
Got my wood cut. Now I need to
decide how big to make this thing.
And sometimes I only bring 4, so I don't
want to make the tray too big.
Maybe this size.
And if I bring more, then these will just
stack on top. So, I just have to make this
tray a little bit taller.
I think this would be a good width.
I just cut a test joint with my
screw advance box joint jig.
In my last video I covered how to set it up
and make sure it's good. But now, I'm
just ready to cut the main pieces for my box.
So, I got a piece of scrap to prevent chip-out,
the 2 long pieces, and 2 short pieces,
and I'm gonna offset those by 1/4 inch,
so that the fingers will match up.
I'll clamp all these in place.
I just cut these pieces to their final width.
Now just I'll need to cut a ledge
for the bottom. There's various ways
to attach the bottom. The traditional is
to cut a rabet and have the bottom
go into here. But that’s quite a pain in the ass
to assemble and you usually end up with
a little bit of gap here so it's not that strong,
because you've got this narrow piece
that has to hold it all.
The stronger option is actually just to glue
the bottom flat on but
you can bevel it here to hide it a little bit
but it's still not the prettiest.
So another option is to cut a rabet in the
bottom and put the bottom in like that.
But that ends up with this part being
quite thin. So, I'm gonna try to do is
to cut a rabet but to cut it really, really
shallow here and the bottom is mostly
gonna get glued on this surface right here.
So I have to fit that very precisely.
But, I can take my time with that
because I can assemble the box and
then slide the bottom in.
Just gluing some thin pieces of wood in
the gaps left by the rabets.
And I'll trim those flush once the glue dries.
Now I have to get the size of that bottom
just right.
Now, before I glue that bottom on,
I'm gonna make sure everything is
smooth and sanded.
I just cut the joints for the carrying
handle for my tray. Once again with
box joint jig but this time using
smaller gears to get finer fingers.
I'm just gonna hinge this handle on some
finishing nails for now.
Because I'm trying to figure out how to
make this work
so that I can flip it up and somehow lock it up.
So I ended up thinking about this for
a good long time and now it's a day later.
So what I've come up with is this thing here
and this leaf here is a wooden spring
so as the handle goes like this and
flips this way, that gets pushed down
and then latches. And then to lower
the handle, I just have to push that down
with my fingers and then I can flip
the handle back down.
I want to make a spacer to hold these
ramekins from sliding around, to go in
the bottom of this tray.
This tray is all varnished and now I just
need to hinge that handle on here somehow.
For the pivot I decided to just use some nails.
And I drilled a hole that's slightly larger
than the case and slightly smaller than
the handle. So that the nail will
get stuck in there.