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Simple wooden box.
I want to make a simple wooden box to store a collection of CDs in plastic
wallets. It doesn't have to be very fancy, just practical and strong. I was not sure how to go about making it. My rough idea is to make a rectangle from some 150mm wide 18mm think board I have in the garage. Was planning to just do Butt joints, but this means i'll have to screw into the end grain. Front and back it with some MDF sheet and then cut it in half (using a circular saw to go round the four sides) to make a lid and base. Then i'd fit some hinges, catches and a handle. For strength, I was thinking of putting a brace piece between the two longer sides to prevent any bowing. It's going to be about 380mm wide (just enough to fit into a filling cabinet. ----------------------- | | | | | | ----------------------- something like this. Any comments/ideas welcome Any links to guides for similar wooden boxes woudl be great. particularly thinking about the butt joints. Thanks |
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"jg" wrote in message ... I want to make a simple wooden box to store a collection of CDs in plastic wallets. It doesn't have to be very fancy, just practical and strong. I was not sure how to go about making it. My rough idea is to make a rectangle from some 150mm wide 18mm think board I have in the garage. Was planning to just do Butt joints, but this means i'll have to screw into the end grain. Front and back it with some MDF sheet and then cut it in half (using a circular saw to go round the four sides) to make a lid and base. Then i'd fit some hinges, catches and a handle. For strength, I was thinking of putting a brace piece between the two longer sides to prevent any bowing. It's going to be about 380mm wide (just enough to fit into a filling cabinet. ----------------------- | | | | | | ----------------------- something like this. Any comments/ideas welcome Any links to guides for similar wooden boxes woudl be great. particularly thinking about the butt joints. Thanks If you glue it together as well as pinning/screwing it, I think you'll find it will be reasonably stiff and strong. Andy |
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I had thought of this idea, but didn't want to loose too much space in the
box due to corner blocks. I was going to try using those little plastic blocks on the insode and screw outwards into the wood. Any tips on what type of glue to use, I've got some of the white wood glue in the green bottle (possibley PVA) Maybe I'll just make the box a bit bigger, i'll have to make sure it'll fit in the filling cabinet still. Thanks |
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Any tips on what type of glue to use, I've got some of the white wood glue in the green bottle (possibley PVA) That'll do. Seconded. Andy. |
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andrewpreece wrote: Any tips on what type of glue to use, I've got some of the white wood glue in the green bottle (possibley PVA) That'll do. Seconded. Andy. Not DIY, but for this price, is it worth making one? http://svp.co.uk/acatalog/rigidcase.html Mark |
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Mark wrote:
andrewpreece wrote: Any tips on what type of glue to use, I've got some of the white wood glue in the green bottle (possibley PVA) That'll do. Seconded. Andy. Not DIY, but for this price, is it worth making one? http://svp.co.uk/acatalog/rigidcase.html Mark IMO not ... I mean, how much are you looking to save? Unless you really want to do it of course Alex |
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I'd thought about these things, but decided against them because:
- I have already bought 500 wallets and these things come with their own wallets so those 500 would be wasted. (You could argue that i'm throwing good money after bad) - I already have the wood in the garage, so wouldn't cost me anything. althought this could be used on something else. - I want something that will fit neatly into a filling cabinet, so a custom made one seems to make sense here. - The ones that come with the wallets have individually numbered wallets, which would be really annoying for me. You organise your collection of 500 discs and then you get a new one that should really go at position 250 so you have to shuffle the rest along. (or just ignore the numbers, but its still annnoying. - It seems like a nice fairly simple project that I could well have done at school. (which is the last time I did anything like this) so would be a good way of practicing some of these techniques for other projects - Admittadly, the shiny mettal boxes do look much nicer than a but jointed wooden box. "AlexW" wrote in message ... Mark wrote: andrewpreece wrote: Any tips on what type of glue to use, I've got some of the white wood glue in the green bottle (possibley PVA) That'll do. Seconded. Andy. Not DIY, but for this price, is it worth making one? http://svp.co.uk/acatalog/rigidcase.html Mark IMO not ... I mean, how much are you looking to save? Unless you really want to do it of course Alex |
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