Squaring Box Joints

Video Transcript

"Ok our next step now that we've got our box parts pretty much made and put together, is to check the box for square and we'll just use our, our framing square here. Lay it up against the side around the corner and take a look at that, that's pretty good. If the box is not square for instance, if it's like that a little bit, let's say our box kind of looked like that. It wasn't particularly square. You just want to take it and put it on one corner and give it a whack. Put it on the other corner and give it a whack and make sure you get it square before you put any glue on it. See we're still a little bit out of square here; ok that looks good. The next step will be to assemble this box so we're going to look at all of our joints. These joints look pretty good. You can see just a tiny little bit of space there but we already talked about raising this blade a little bit. So, when you do that, when you raise the blade a little bit, make some test cuts to make sure these joints are, are completely seated down here at the bottom and completely seated here. And what's , what you want to eliminate is what we have here which we got on our first test cuts was just a little bit of unevenness. A, don't go nuts over it because pine is kind of cantankerous wood anyway and it'll bend and warp depending on the weather. A, when you start making these out of real fine hardwood a, you'll see that they are, they come out a lot more exact but these can be just sanded off real nice and a they'll look beautiful. So before I glue this together I'm just going to hold it together with clamps right now and we'll demonstrate cutting out a rabbit around the bottom to put the bottom in the box. And I'll show you how to do that with our little small router and I'm going to get that set up with a rabbiting bit. Hang on be right back."