Noah B Woodworks

I ended up taking my Thursday and Friday off last week to help my wife with her mom. My wife has traveled to Ann Arbor every day since last Monday and so I helped with the house and toddler. It has been really rough on her and her guardian mom.

I was still able to wake up early and make progress on some projects. The tessellated box project is almost done. I’ve attached a picture of it clamped up. I chose walnut for the top and bottom. I did a butt joint instead of rabbets. I wanted the full 1/2″ of material to be showing, and it saved me some time. I’m confident that the joint will be strong enough, even though I would have liked to do rabbets.

The box is turning out fairly well. I tried to leave the top and bottom edges proud so they could be flush routed perfectly flat to the sides of the box. The miters are fairly good, I think if the tessellated pattern weren’t there I’d try to fill some gaps with a wood glue and maple sawdust mixture. I’ll leave them alone this time though because the pattern does line up really well on every corner.

Next steps are flush trimming, routing on a round over on the top and bottom, sanding to 400 grit, and cutting the lid off. Once the lid is cut off I can install the hinges and add the feet. After that’s done I can finally apply some wood finish and it’ll be complete.