BEGINNER SERIES: Strong Lightweight Box (Yet another way to build a box)
Each time I show how to build a box I use a different method. Today is no different. Here is a way to build a strong lightweight box.
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Im making an arcade stick so this video is exactly what I needed! Never apologize for teaching specific information! It needs to be out there!
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Very nice work u teach very professional and clear step by step. Thanks god blessing u
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Something like that would make good blanket boxes with a lid. Interesting take on the interior rails.
Thank you. May be a little to light for big blanket.
Super helpful video!! Thanks for making this. Very informative
You're so welcome!
Great project and video. Cheers from London England 👍🏴
Thank you very much.
Slick. Nice work
Thank you very much
Thank you. Helpful
You're welcome!
Nice work, love the plywood too. Great grain patterns. What is the composition of it? You could reinforce the top edge with flat strips and it will have enough material to roundover. Giving a smooth edge as square plywood will splinter quite easily
Tyvm, the video i was looking for
You’re very welcome
Hello enjoyed your video. thank you
You’re welcome. Thanks for watching
very nice. a lot of people would problebly say thet these boxes are not strong. But they are.
Yes, they are very strong
Hey Paw Paw (and that sounds funny to me, because growing up in eastern Kentucky, that's how I would address my own grandpa!). I had an idea for a thin-wall box, still on my list to try and fabricate, where instead of a supporting gusset, the edges are wide box-joint fingers (like 1 1/4" wide in 1/4" or less plywood), glued of course but also reinforced with 2 nails or dowels going through each finger into the corresponding space in the other panel. The 'dowels' I had in mind for the thin material was actually 1/8" bamboo skewers. Since the direction of these pins would be 90 degrees to those going through the adjacent fingers from the other panel, this would provide strength in both directions. In other words, the left panel couldn't pull away from the right because the pins going through the right fingers into the left spaces hold it in place. And likewise the same concept preventing the right panel fingers from pulling out of the left's spaces. The application I had in mind for this was those boxes you stand up a bunch of magazines in, like a fat cereal box where one of the top corners was cut off at an angle (usually made from plastic, and not something you'd want gussets in the inside corners causing a space around the magazines). So you could have a line of these boxes on a shelf holding all your woodworking magazines, and could orient the boxes either with the tall side out and a label on it, or the side with the cut-off corner out, showing the magazine spines with their names and dates. I have no video skills of my own (not to mention lighting, editing software, etc.), nor really any desire currently to work all that out. But if you see merit in the design I've described, and mostly in the strength of that wide-fingered box joint, I'd love to see your execution of it. I just thought it would be a good tough joint for having a lot of weight on it, like a stack of heavy magazines. What do you think?
Excellent idea, thank you very much
Very nice job. An added touch might be to laser engrave an image on the box.
An image of a box on the box
Yes I will be adding a laser image
Good morning Paw Paw. I enjoyed the video and I am attempting to make drawers in the same way. Just a question for you regarding the router step. I tried this technique on my router and found that as the blade rotates anticlockwise at the table face. My approach was from right side of the cutter nearest the guide (as in the video) but the blade was pulling the stock through the cutter (rotating in same direction as direction of timber) and resulted in a very poor finish. I tried an approach from the left side of the blade so pushing timber into an oncoming blade, but that resulted in a poor outcome as the blade removed the timber from the guide side and the timber was shattering. I feel I should approach from the guide side into an oncoming blade, but my router table has a clear arrow crossed out suggesting "Not this way". Surely it depends on which side of the blade you pass your timber. I feel it should be into an oncoming cut somehow.
Be very careful when making this type of box. Although it is very simple process, please be very careful working around the router bit. Look at the grain of wood and consider that when running the material through. The blade runs counterclockwise. The material should run through the blade so that the pushes toward the fence
Just plain mitres and painters tape, then triangluar profile in the inside corners would be my way..it gives a larger glue surface area and no risky routing required... 🤔 Nice boxes tho ! 😎👍☘️🍺
That works fine but I am always wanting to show different methods for KZhead land. Lol
@@PawPawsWorkShop always happy to learn new methods... my late father, a cabinet maker, use to say "every day is a school day" ... 😎👍
Shoot sir i had been using that gluing tip for years in building models for my model Railroad, didn't know it was so widely known???
Model railroads and model airplanes use this technique a lot but not used that much in other areas
If I did this but with Balsa wood to save weight, would it be strong enough to be useable? Also, what is the wieght and dimensions of the box you made here?
Balsa is very lightweight material and I would not recommend to make a box out of it unless it was very small.
I build speaker boxes and need the lightest, strongest, material I can get at a good price. I'm currently using birch plywood and southern yellow pine, any recommendations appreciated 👍
Use this method. It is lightweight plywood and yet is very strong. These corners work great and the nice thing is that there are numerous methods to make the corners
@@PawPawsWorkShop thank you for the response!! Any material you think would be better than birch plywood?
The plywood is strong. MDF will work if the speakers are not moved a lot. Underlayment is inexpensive plywood will work also
@@PawPawsWorkShop love the approach in the video that's what I was looking for! I haven't found anything yet that beats good plywood and love overlapping different panels with dovetail joints that highlight the difference between the southern yellow pine and plywood! Love the tips, and I agree MDF is just too heavy and wears out tools faster and cost my customers more for shipping. Still loving my double laminated 3in thick select pine faces with heavy polyurethane finish contrasted with the plywood fun stuff!! Thanks again 👍
Use that pushing tool, before you loos fingers.
Thank you for your concern
I don't have the tools to make boxes like this but I need something exactly like this. How would I go about getting 6 of these made somewhere? What do I do?
Check with local cabinet shops and local finish carpenters to make these for you
Ok thank you @@PawPawsWorkShop
hello uncle, have a nice day
Thanks
I lo the technique you used to create the box. I haven't seen it use anywhere else but outside of using ca glue to eliminate the use of clamps, this is not a simple way of making a box for a beginner. I am a beginner and any build that uses a table saw, in my opinion isn't simple.
I have shown many ways to make drawers and boxes. In addition I will be showing even more ways this year. You need to pick to best method that works for your and your skill level.
as a newbie, I would have liked to see clearly what you were doing instead of being told what you were doing.
This is not a beginner type of box. I have other videos that are designed more for a beginner
@@PawPawsWorkShopthis is the 'beginner series'... according to the video title..
@@PawPawsWorkShopjust accept it you made a mistake
What kind of wood is that?
This is 5mm floor underlayment
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Would you be able to build this with a lid?
Certainly, you can add a lid
@PawPawsWorkShop do you have any expert pointers for this beginner.. I was thinking to add a thin piece of wood to the inside that would support the hinges.. am I thinking that through correct?
Yes, that would work. That will provide support for the small screws.
@@PawPawsWorkShop thank you for the feedback. I will give it a try.
Hooooooo, original and Nevers Seen 🥺hooooooo....american ?
Yep!
A very precarious way to route on the router table. You were routing in the counter direction with the workpiece between the fence and the bit.
Yes, you’re correct. It is very small pieces and great care is required
Not beginner
There are many ways to build a box. Some are super easy while others take a little more effort and some are just plain hard. This one falls somewhere in the middle to easy
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