I've been working on this strange contraption,
and it stands on a base And the first time
I made this base out of recycled material,
I made it a little bit too shallow cause I miscalculated.
I hate it when that happens. Not wanting to waster material,
I'll just turn this base into a storage box.
What's cool is how I made the corners for it.
I'd been thinking about making a rabbet joint,
or a box joint for the corners, but this plywood isn't really
good for screwing into, it's not that strong,
and by putting a hardwood piece in between,
I can just screw it, to it from both sides like this,
and I get a nice strong corner, and I don't have to worry about
chipping out on here with a box joint or anything.
But, because the screws are actually only this long,
I want to cut the corners off of these pieces
so they don't protrude is as far.
I cut this piece back a little bit, so that when I
put it in a corner, like this, I can then inset the bottom
but to hold the bottom along the length of the sides,
I'm gonna glue a rail on here.
Now, the wood glue isn't gonna stick very well to this
pre-finished wood, so I'm just gonna
scrap that off where the glue joint goes.
To help really pull these corners together,
I actually put this hole, half a millimeter closer
to the corner than this hole, so that when it all gets
screwed together, this gets pressed tightly
onto here.
I guess it's only natural that a box
that's born out of a screw-up, would contain a screw-up,
because I cut this one back on the wrong end,
so I had to cut on both ends, but actually that looks
better than the ones I didn't cut so it's not so bad.
But, overall I think if you're working with thin
or low-quality plywood, this is a really good way to
join the corners, and you can still round them over
without messing up the veneer. The only thing is,
if you're using this box,
to store other boxes, then it kinda sucks.