Inbox Project: Part One

 

Above is one of two wooden inbox units that I made several years ago. I have the one above and the other resides at my wife's office. I made them using some scraps of pine and cherry from other projects and it resides on my office desk downstairs to the right of my computer monitor and keyboard. Also next to the framed picture of my great grandparents with the broken glass on my great grandfather's picture that I never seem to find the time to fix. Bad juju?

Anyway, late last fall as I was cleaning up the garage knowing I would be making an altar come spring, I thought I should thin out the scrap pile a bit and so thought to myself, perhaps I could make a few more of these wooden inbox units. The lower two drawers slide out on rails while the upper box is fixed in place.

Somehow, I lost a few pictures showing the process of cutting out all the parts. I'm not sure where they disappeared to but alas, I can't find them anymore... if they even existed. Above, I have the frame parts already cut out of leftover cherry and I am starting to assemble them using splines and glue.

Here I have three frames glued together with splines in all the corners to reinforce them since they are only simple miters and would be weak without them.

Above I have glued the drawer slides in place and cut out the drawer parts themselves piled up on the left side of my workbench. I didn't quite have enough of one kind of leftover plywood to do the same material for all the drawer bottoms so six were cut out of birch and three cut out of oak.