Hey all,
I'm trying to design a tool chest and I'm having trouble with the joinery
details of the lid. It's a small chest, 12 x 12 x 30" with the top 3 inches
as the lid. I'm dovetailing the sides, with the bottom captured in a dado. I
was thinking of capturing the top with a dado too, but I don't want a lip -
I want the top to be flush. All of the joinery is being done by hand so I
don't want to use biscuits or anything like that. Any help would be
appreciated.
Thanks,
Eide
cut a rabbet around the top edge of the lid so that there is a lip
sticking out at the bottom edge of the top : ^ )
set that lip into a dado in the sides so that the top of the sides is
flush with the top of the top. that way the lid panel will be able to
float.
Bridger
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 23:36:49 -0500, "Eide" <[email protected]> wrote:
>Hey all,
>
>I'm trying to design a tool chest and I'm having trouble with the joinery
>details of the lid. It's a small chest, 12 x 12 x 30" with the top 3 inches
>as the lid. I'm dovetailing the sides, with the bottom captured in a dado. I
>was thinking of capturing the top with a dado too, but I don't want a lip -
>I want the top to be flush. All of the joinery is being done by hand so I
>don't want to use biscuits or anything like that. Any help would be
>appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>Eide
>
Thanks for the replies everyone, how much do I have to take wood movement
into consideration. I'm building out of pine and the top will be about 12 x
12 x 30. Will the box joint or dovetail option be too stressful for a panel
that size out of pine?
"Joe Willmann" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> "Eide" <[email protected]> wrote in news:tr9Fb.12160$ti2.4828@lakeread03:
>
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I'm trying to design a tool chest and I'm having trouble with the
> > joinery details of the lid. It's a small chest, 12 x 12 x 30" with the
> > top 3 inches as the lid. I'm dovetailing the sides, with the bottom
> > captured in a dado. I was thinking of capturing the top with a dado
> > too, but I don't want a lip - I want the top to be flush. All of the
> > joinery is being done by hand so I don't want to use biscuits or
> > anything like that. Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Eide
> >
> >
>
> If you are doing your dovetails by hand then put interlocking dovetails
> all the way around the top. It will look soooooo cool.
"Eide" <[email protected]> wrote in news:tr9Fb.12160$ti2.4828@lakeread03:
> Hey all,
>
> I'm trying to design a tool chest and I'm having trouble with the
> joinery details of the lid. It's a small chest, 12 x 12 x 30" with the
> top 3 inches as the lid. I'm dovetailing the sides, with the bottom
> captured in a dado. I was thinking of capturing the top with a dado
> too, but I don't want a lip - I want the top to be flush. All of the
> joinery is being done by hand so I don't want to use biscuits or
> anything like that. Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Eide
>
>
If you are doing your dovetails by hand then put interlocking dovetails
all the way around the top. It will look soooooo cool.
I've thought about how I would do this several times in the past. The best idea
I'm came up with is to box-joint the top to the sides.
I figured it will be very difficult to pull off but indeed would look unique. I
would then round over the top edges with a 1/4 or 3/8 round over bit.
--
Erik "Grumpa" Ahrens
Apprentice Termite
I'd much rather be hammered than nailed 8~)
"Eide" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:tr9Fb.12160$ti2.4828@lakeread03...
> Hey all,
>
> I'm trying to design a tool chest and I'm having trouble with the joinery
> details of the lid. It's a small chest, 12 x 12 x 30" with the top 3 inches
> as the lid. I'm dovetailing the sides, with the bottom captured in a dado. I
> was thinking of capturing the top with a dado too, but I don't want a lip -
> I want the top to be flush. All of the joinery is being done by hand so I
> don't want to use biscuits or anything like that. Any help would be
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Eide
>
>