In this video I make a jewllery box out of some pallet wood which I believe to be Meranti.
I started by cutting out all the bits with nails in, and then used my electric planer to get one edge and one face of each piececleaned up and square.
I glued the pieces up in panels with the flattened sides face down and the jointed edges together, and when the glue had dried I ran the panels through the thicknesser to clean up the other side. Unfortunately the grain on the wood tore out quite badly so I ended up using a sharp cutting edge in a hand plane which had much better results.
Next I cut the panels down to the size I wanted the box to be and mitred the panels using my panel sled on my tablesaw.
I cut a slot near the bottom of the box to accommodate a 5mm plywood bottom which I cut to size at the tablesaw..
Then I could assemble the box with the plywood bottom in the slot. I used some elastic bands to hold it all together until the glue dried as I only had one strap clamp.
Next I cut a top panel to length at the mitresaw. I wanted to set the top panel inside the box so I made some reference marks and cut some rebates at the tablesaw so that the panel would fit snugly inside at the top of the box. I cleaned up the cuts with a chisel and then glued on the top panel using some claamps to apply pressure. Once that was dry I made it flush with a handplane.
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