Flushing a Box Joint with a Router

Video Transcript

"Ok now I've rounded off the top of all these fingers and next I'm going to set these up. I'm going to go ahead and use my finger jig on the table saw and just set these a, two pieces of wood so that they're flush with each other like that and clamp them down. Clamp them down nice and tight like that and take my router and route the edges. And we're going to leave the outsides alone for right now because when we put the box together we don't want to have a rounded corner there. We're going to have a square corner and we might round that off when the box is all put together but we're not going to do that right now. Sorry didn't put my eye protection on ok. Ok, looks pretty good, I going to come back with a piece of sandpaper and just sort of a, smooth these up a little bit. I was telling you before pine is very soft so it tends to tear out a little bit you can get some little fury edges. Alright that's good enough for the kind of work we do around here. Set them back together just like we did before on the other blocks. And a let me get my mallet right quick I'm going to pound on this a little bit more. Ok now here's the general idea since I used a, a couple pieces of scrap to do this with it's not going to be a, exact on, as exact on this a, example as it should be on the box that you make but you can see how that rounds those corners off a little bit and it kind of makes the a, makes the contour a little bit more interesting. A, we'll be sanding this off a, and ideally before you round these over you should sand the wood pretty good because if it's a rough like this when you sand it down the round over will go away. So make sure that the, your depths of cut on both of these are exact before you do this round over and you sand that up and it looks real pretty."