Squaring Box Joint Corners

Video Transcript

"K now I'm going to square these corners up, a, assuming that your chisel is nice and sharp. If it doesn't a, stick on your thumb, if it slides off like that, it needs a little bit of sharpening but this one seems to be ok for today. I'm going to take my handy dandy cabinet square, lay it up against the side of the box and right up against the edge of the cut if you can see that and with my chisel tip a pencil just make a little line there. And I'm going to do the same thing on the other side, make a little line there. I'm going to take the clamps off, now just take the chisel by hand with the flat side to the outside. I'm going to nibble away at this corner, you don't want to do it all at once or bang on it with the hammer or do any of this because with a nice sharp chisel you just put it right up in there and take it out just a bit at a time. Sometimes a little tap will help but you don't want to go pounding on it. Come back on the other side and do the same thing. Come back with our chisel flat like this and clean the corner out. You may have to just get in there and trim a little bit and make it, and just make it all nice and square like that. Great stuff huh? Wee."