On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 09:51:09 -0500, "Digger" DW wrote:
"Michael Baglio" wrote in message
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On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 04:04:00 GMT, Michael Baglio
wrote:
Assuming a six inch base, you want to clamp two straight boards,
(again, cheap-o masonite is just fine for this), 6 inches apart from
each other, each one exactly 3 inches from the [center] of the gap...

Couldn't he make a panel type box with a solid frame and plywood panel
inserts of plywood? Then he could build each side (frame and panel insert),
dovetail the frame edges together and have a good looking box. I think
chests and furniture with panels like this are nice looking, and dovetailed
corners are great, so would they work together?

Well, everything you suggest sounds good except...

It doesn't address the OP's question. His original question was how
do I _please my wife_ by building _exactly_ what she wants with the
limited power tools I have?

There may be dozens of ways to construct a good looking tack box, but
(apparently) only _one_ specifie box will please the S.O. (At least
that's sure how I read it, especially when he told us she'd already
given him "THE LOOK.")

I sure as hell don't like it when I get "the Look," so I figure all
the best intentioned ideas about how to build something different from
what she wants are only going to knock the guy down a few more rungs
on the wife's "manly-man" ladder.

Know what I mean?

Hmm... he hasn't replied yet though, so maybe he's already dead. ;

Michael Baglio
Chapel Hill