DIY Woodworking Box Fabrication

Making a wooden box to hold your woodworking tools is a good beginning project.

For those getting started with a woodworking hobby, one of the first things you should learn how to make is a wooden box. Fabricating a wooden box will give you something to hold your woodworking tools while also teaching you some of the basics of woodworking. You don’t even have to have a lot of different tools to make yourself a box, just some wood and some free time.

Things You'll Need

• 2 pinewood boards, 6-by-6-by-¼-inch
• 3 pinewood boards, 12-by-6-by-¼-inch
• Wood glue
• Staples
• Staple gun
• Sandpaper
• Wood stain
• Brush

Instructions

1. Build a wooden box frame using two 6-by-6-inch pinewood boards and two 12-by-6-inch pinewood boards. Apply wood glue to each corner of the frame, and hold the piece together by driving staples down each corner of the frame with a staple gun. The frame will measure 12 inches long, 6 inches high and 6 inches deep.

2. Attach a 12-by-6-inch board over the frame to cover one side of the frame. Attach this board in the same way that you attached the other boards that make up the frame--with wood glue and staples. You now have a wooden box, but it needs to be finished.

3. Smooth out the wood with sandpaper until each corner, face and edge of the box is smooth. Chisel off any excess glue that seeped out of the corners with a chisel and hammer.

4. Apply wood stain with a brush to protect the wood. Let the stain dry for about an hour.

5. Insert small woodworking tools such as chisels, hammers, drill bits, pencils and chalk into your new woodworking box.

References

• Woodworking Corner: Free Wood Box Plans
• Cara Audio Help: Building Subwoofer Boxes
• Wayne of the Woods: Free Fire Wood Box Plans