Making a Cantilever Toolbox - Scrapwood Challenge ep35

Scrapwood Challenge Scrapwood Challenge its scrap its crap its firewood but some of the wood is good in this video I'm going to make a cantilever box it's based on a vintage sewing box but the concept could also be used for a tool box it was my wife Cath's idea to make it we're going to use it as a piece of furniture in our lounge to organize clutter like remotes or anything like that I'll keep hold of these centerpieces because I'm sure they'll be handy for something in the future that's all the stock prepared now on to the joinery the fun part of the project but before I start that I'll take a moment to tell you about sponsor of this video which is Kove I've been using the Kove Commuter now for a couple of weeks it's a portable Bluetooth speaker it's a great bit of kit and it's great to have around the workshop it's very impressive the sound from such a compact speaker and it more than fills up the whole of the workshop I'm using my phone and that was super easy to connect on the speaker itself it has easy controls it has a couple of different modes for bass the volume has a very cool dial and you can slide between tracks which is very handy the battery lasts for eight hours on a single charge which should get most people through the day it's portable and you can take it just about anywhere check out the reviews as they speak for themselves and the best bit is you can get it with 65% off by using my link in the description which is koveaudio.com/pm65 and don't forget to use the code pm65 in the checkout and thanks again to Kove for sponsoring the video I'm laying out the parts of each box and then clearly labeling each side of all the joints so I don't get confused what goes where for the joints I'm going to make hand-cut dovetails I mark all the boards first I mark the tail boards all the way around and the pin boards just on the faces I made my Moxon vice around six months ago it hasn't been used on a project yet so today gets its first proper test I lay out the tails first using dividers and I made this guide out of a piece of aluminium angle I'm trying to cut to the lines but it doesn't need to be perfect because we'll cut the pins to match on each joint and now on to the pins I'll lay the tails on top of the pin board I offset it by a saw kerf and mark the pins directly through the tails the only difficult part of this is holding on to the tail board firmly but when you've done it a few times it's not too difficult I then I've set the board the other way and mark the other side of the pins and then to cut the pins it's easy enough to make a straight cut down to the base line with a coping saw I remove most of the waste from the socket going fairly close to the base line the closer I get the less chisel work there is to do later then back to the tailboard and remove the waste from that I'm removing a tiny nick so the saw can sit right up against the mark from the marking gauge this is a very accurate way to make the cut I'll go through and get every joint up to the same stage and then I'll chisel them out even though the camphor laurel looks great most of the scrap stock is sapwood and it isn't the easiest to work with it tears very easy but it is manageable and it does look very nice even though it worked it was a little sloppy and not quite accurate enough I wasn't happy with it so I decided to plug all the holes in the boxes and the linkages with dowels and re-drilled them all when the glue dried on those plugs I re-drilled the center holes on the longer linkages and one hole on the shorter ones I just made this guide from a piece of steel and it should ensure that the holes are all drilled the correct distance apart with the boxes in the correct position and clamped to the workbench I can accurately mark out the center holes I'm drilling a pilot hole and going up in a couple different sizes I don't want the drill bit to wander off as it's going into the end grain of the dowels and sometimes that has a tendency to do that using the steel guide and a bevel gauge I can accurately drill the remaining holes the holes in the boxes need to be 9mm to accommodate the nuts rather than jump straight in with a 9mm bit I went up in half millimeter increments again to avoid the drill bit wandering off now the boxes are done I'll make a couple of lids if this was going to be a toolbox you could make something fairly simple maybe with plywood but this is going to be a piece of furniture so I'm going to do something a bit nicer for the center of the lids I'm using these Kumiko panels I did make them off-camera but if you're interested in how to make them I showed that in a past video and I'll link that above now I'm going to make a handle it doesn't really need one but the original vintage sewing boxes have them and it does do one thing it keeps the boxes in line when they close together I need to glue a shim to the inside faces of the handle this will give the boxes a little bit of clearance when they're closing that really was a fair bit of sanding and then I applied a coat of varnish linseed oil and turps mixed in equal quantities and then after that I finished it with a couple of coats of beeswax polish even though I made this for the lounge my daughter Jess has got her eye on it and she's trying to claim it for herself hopefully you enjoyed the video if you did please like and subscribe thanks for watching and I'll see you on the next one and thanks again to Kove for sponsoring the video

Channel: Pask Makes

Views: 1,044,761

Rating: 4.9297786 out of 5

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Id: WwHvOxedWm8

Length: 23min 16sec (1396 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 06 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/McCoggen]

That was fantastic! I think I found a new channel to dive into. Excellent craftsmanship, well made video

[u/zyzzogeton]

I like that he made a mistake and corrected it... but that is pretty nice wood for scrap.

[u/lough54]

AKA a sewing box

[u/wallabies7]

A Qlder!

[u/amaiog]

well organized.

[u/JWGhetto]

Just don't put too much stuff in the topmost drawers or it will fall over