A year or so ago I built a “crappy” pine tool carrier to hold my growing collection of hand tools:
The first dovetail I ever cut
It did the job for awhile, but I rushed the design in my fervor the learn how to dovetail properly. That was my bad, but now I have a good reason to build another bigger, better box.
Again for this project I resorted to pine since this box will get beat to crap over my lifetime and it would be a shame to subject maple or cherry to this abuse. A single six-foot 1×12 provided all the material I needed.
1 inch at a time
Corners were all dovetailed, and I needed a pattern to lay out the shorter sides that would accept the carrier handle. Looking around the kitchen, I found the perfect curve to copy:
Nice. Coping saw followed the line and spokeshave smoothed out the saw marks. It got pretty intense.
Andew W.K would be proud
I had just sharpened my chisel set and since I can be in a hurry when working, I managed to cut myself a few times and coat the pine in blood. It seemed only right to give the piece a coating of blood red milk paint, omitting the inside of the box and the handle due to heavy wear.
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