Man Shows How to Build a Wooden Chest

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This man showed how to build a cool wooden chest. He began by cutting 2x2s to size which would form the corners of the chest. Then, using a router, he cut grooves to create joints for assembly. Once that was complete, he measured and cut 1x4 planks for the chest’s sides and secured them to the 2x2s with glue and finishing nails for stability. He also created a lid using additional 2x2s and 1x4s and used plywood for the bottom. Finally, he finished the chest with stain and added handles for a touch of style.  “The underlying music rights are not available for license. For use of the video with the track(s) contained therein, please contact the music publisher(s) or relevant rightsholder(s).”

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00:00In this video, I'm going to show you how to make a 24 by 16 by 18 chest

00:10First thing you'll do is you'll cut four 2x2 that's 17 and 1 quarter and this would be your four corners of your chest

00:16after that

00:17you'll grab a

00:173 quarter inch straight router bit and set at a depth of quarter inch and

00:21From your backboard to the center of your bit will be a half inch go ahead and run that 2x2 through all four of them

00:27and once you get that done the way you're looking at your rotate it counterclockwise and

00:31Move that backboard back to 3 quarter inches off the center of the bit and run it through one more time

00:36And once you have all four of those run through this is kind of something what it will look like

00:40And this is the joints that your board to be able to fit into here

00:48Now you're gonna grab your 1 by 4 and you'll cut 10 at 24 inches and 10 at 15 inches

00:54And once I got those cut I kind of just dry fit it and make sure my measurements were correct

01:05Now that all my 1 by 4s are cut I'm gonna go ahead and start putting those together

01:09And I'm gonna make sure that I glue each board here on the ends and on the top parts of them

01:14I stack them together and I'm also looking at each end of the board and make sure that the grains are running in opposite directions

01:20Basically all you do is look at the board and see which ways the lines are going and make sure it's just opposite of the

01:25One below it and as I'm doing this I am putting in a few finishing nails

01:30Once I get all together just kind of help hold it together

01:32I put some clamps to hold it and then put some finishing nails

01:35To kind of help it keep it straight square and level that way once the glue dries. It'll be good to go

01:41Now I'm gonna cut for the bottom of our box

01:43You could either use half-inch or 3 quarter inch plywood and you're gonna cut that 24 and an eighth by

01:4915 and a quarter and once that's cut out each corner

01:52You have to cut about a 3 8 square off to be able to fit in there properly

01:55And once all those squares are all cut off

01:57You'll grab your drill and drill four pocket holes on each side of the board

02:02And this will allow you to drill a hole in the bottom of the board

02:05Next we're gonna cut two 2x2's at 26 and a quarter and two at 14 and a quarter for our lid

02:12And they want to cut four 1x4's at 23 and a quarter and you're also gonna cut one 1x4

02:18That's also 23 and a quarter, but it's only gonna be about an inch and a quarter wide

02:22So you're gonna cut that at 23 and a quarter and then you're gonna cut two 1x4's at

02:2614 and a quarter and then you're gonna cut two 2x2's at

02:29And you're also gonna cut one 1x4 that's also 23 and a quarter

02:33But it's only gonna be about an inch and a quarter wide

02:41And for your 2x2's here, you're also going to use your

02:453 quarter inch straight router bit again and set about a quarter inch depth and go straight

02:49Center those 2x2's to be able to give it a good groove for those 1x4's to get in

02:54All right

02:55Now that our lid is complete the last thing we really have is be able to put on the feet here

02:59I actually use these wooden dowel rod holders and they work great for feet

03:04They get it just right height off the ground and they only cost 99 cents for two of them

03:09So $2 total and it works out great for this project and after that you're pretty much ready to stain

03:16I use kind of a red oak stain here and you can use whatever color you want and darker or lighter

03:22Or you can just leave a natural wood

03:24I recommend just using a cloth or a rag to kind of apply that and just kind of lightly

03:29Kind of touch the wood going across going with the grain of the wood and most of times you're probably gonna need at least two

03:34coats to get a nice good even

03:36Coat across other than that. This is a basically what it looks like whenever it's done. I

03:44Use black hinges here and also used half inch

03:47Manila rope about 20 inches long for each side and tied a knot in it as you can see here

03:52Just kind of works good for the handles give it a different kind of look

03:55But I use black hardware, like I said because it kind of goes good with the red here

04:00Thank you for watching my video. I hope that was beneficial to you that maybe you learned something new

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