Dry fit and progress

This morning, finished cleaning up my last join (D1 to D2), then dry fitted the box.  Everything looks good, tight, no groaning or cracking.  Easily squared, I'm happy

The last join starting to come together.

Yap, I'm working on the floor again.

First dry fit. hand tight, some love tap with wooden mallet and it's square

Paul first dry fit inside his forever home

Next brunch then packed up the car with my box, some more wood to resaw and I have to make a bunch of wax mold stand in pine for Jean's project.

My plan is to sand the inside of the box, cut my plywood bottom, glue box and put on bottom.
Resaw and glue up material for the cover.
For the lid, I decided on a framed raise panel.
Must also figured out what Im am going to do for the foot and bottom trim.
It will depend greatly on what stock I have available.  All of which mean I may have to resaw some more.  My pile selection is getting slim.

Then time to take Rudy to the vet, for his annual check up, yes, just like us humans :-)
And after dropping off Rudy at home, it's off to the shop we go.

Today's load I'm taking to the wood shop

Including of course, my still dry fitted box

 First order of business was to resaw my figured maple boards I brought.  Following recent past performance, I first resaw a kerf on both sides on the Unisaw, to give a guide to the bandsaw blade, preventing cupping.

The big Bandsaw we used.  The Unisaws are behind the dust collector

Then it was off to the drum sander to quickly flatten my boards to a common dimension

From these boards, I selected the ones for my raise panel, machined stock for the skirt and the frame for the lid. I goofed when cross cutting my frame pieces, forgot to add some length for the joinery, Oups.  No biggie, got spare stock machined, and now I got a go/nogo gauge for the space between the tenons :-) Plywood bottom was measured with the box assembled, will become a smidgen larger once box is fully seated in all the joints.  Just enough to be able to flush it after assembly

Raise panel blank, book matched  and glued

The inside of the box boards were given a final sanding, before glue up.

Just did the inside, the outside will only be done after the box is glued.

I made sure to retrace my cryptic markings system on the other side, before disassembly

Now time for Jean's project.

Here is the set she wanted triplicated

It is designed to sandwich both halves of the polystyrene mold,

upside down, since we pour from the bottom.

The vertical brackets slide back and forth to accommodate various sizes of molds 

It was quick work to rip a bunch of scrap pine boards of various sizes to task.

The matching recess to stand them up was all cut on the small bandsaw

3 sets completed, minus one small detail...

The groove in the middle.  

The narrower I can get it with the tablesaw is about 1/8 in wide, with a thin kerf blade. 

She wants it thinner like the one she has.

Than mean using a handsaw to make that kind of kerf ?  Should be fun :-)

But just in case I brought a piece of scrap with a kerf from the Unisaw.  Will see if that's OK with her before I proceed.  These are needed for tomorrow morning, so may have to put in a longer nite in the shop :-)

2 hours later, I was back at home for supper.  I have processed all my pieces like I wanted.
Everything is back home, but...

Some assembly required.

The complete kit. 4 dovetailed boards, grooved stock for the lid frame, 

sized stock for the skirt and feet bracket, cut to size plywood bottom, and...

My resawn and book matched raise panel.

Much bigger than necessary, but then I got more latitude to choose the pattern

After supper, my objective is to glue the box, put on the bottom.
Finish the kerfs in her pine boards and start laying out the frame pieces.

Bob, trying to figured out what we do for supper?? Pickled cabbage!? Nah :-)