A Nice Looking Joint

 

After I got all the dovetails cut on the main box, I cut a backpanel to size and glued the first box together. Above one of those completed dovetails after the glue had set and I could do a rough sanding. You can see some small gaps here and there but overall, I'm really pleased at how well they look for my first attempt. I learned a lot on how to work the chisels to achieve the results I was looking for. I also learned that hard maple was not probably a good wood to do chisel work on as a novice. It requires extremely sharp chisels to sever instead of crush the wood. I discovered that my chisels were probably not sharp enough and will have to learn how to sharpen them better.

Below is the main body of the first box that will be the one I mount to my wall. All the doors still need to be made and I am waiting on the hinges to arrive that will hold those doors and allow them to work how I envisioned in my head. Unfortunately, they will take a couple weeks to arrive. Fortunately, it will probably take me that much time or more to make the two smaller middle doors that will attach to this body. I need to get all my chisels sharpened and start in completing twice as many dovetail joints as I did for the above box.