On Wednesday I descended in to the basement workshop with a plan. I had been going to make a Box Joint Jig like the one from the Router Workshop for sometime now. Months actually, in truth I bought the 1/2 Baltic Birch at last year's Kitchener Wood show, like about 12 months.
Anyway, better late than never.
I will spare this blog's readers the full story of broken routers and blue air. ( you can get the whole story at blogthetoolstore.blogspot.com, if you want).
You can see the corners of the poplar box that I made using the box joint jig. The jig is set up for 1/4 cuts, I am going to experiment with 3/8 and see if I can control the cut along the 1/4 guide. If it doesn't work, I'll make a 3/8 jig too.
I made about four sets of joints before I got the hang of setting the jig up and now I think it will be fast and easy. In the course of the day's adventures I lost my 1/4 brass spacer bar. Such a pain, I use those spacer bars all the time.
The colour of the box is sort of interesting, it is straight orange shellac. It is a very old fashioned looking colour.
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