- Oak frame, with walnut panels.
- Joinery includes through grooves on rails and tenons on stiles. Frames are rabbeted and then chamfered to give a nice shadow line along the panel/frame joint.
- Lid is rounded over along front and sides.
- Corners are spline mitered with a Walnut spline for a nice contrast.
- Finishing was accomplished in 2 stages and included 1 coat of General Finishes Seal-a-Cell, and 3 coats of GF Urethane Topcoat.
- First stage - finish all the panels and inside edges of frames before assembly
- Second stage - After glue-up of panels complete finishing the frames
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| Dry fit of the box |
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| Splined miter joint |
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| Dry fitting panels |
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| Glue up of the lid |
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| Finishing panels and inside edges of box sides before the glue up of each side |
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| grain matching on the lid prior to glue up |
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| Panel assembly - 16 floating panels in all! |
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| Glue-up of the box. |
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| Completed Box! |
