The Woodshop Shed

Forstner Bit Box

Furnished content.
(from Lumberjocks.com)


Picture #1 is original box – the rest are pics of the new box
Sometime last year I got a Freud Forstner set. I had never had a complete set of good bits before so I was excited about having them and even more excited on their performance compared to what I had been using.
This build was totally unnecessary because the box they came is was quite sufficient. However, I had a piece of American chestnut left from a tree that was given to me and thought it would be perfect. It was (please note was ) perfect until I started millwork. Somehow I ended up with a 'short' board so I performed stretching exercise on one piece. I made a butt joint with a 45 degree as opposed to a lap or even a dowel joint. Now it must be said that when I glued this joint I merely put glue on ONE edge and made the marrige and held it for 15 or 20 seconds. in 2 hours or so I scraped off excess glue and ran all of the components thru the drum sander and kissed both edges on the table saw and ran the rest thru for same dims.
I wasn't concerned about losing heigth because not only being a poor planner I did have the foresight to leave plenty for the top and bottom.
Now, for the top and bottom – both are 1/4” laun and set in dados. After I got the box complete I took it and the original to our local graphics store. Tiffany ran the original thru their copy machine and got a pretty good image. I asked her if she would install the graphic when it was done – sure I'll call in a couple days. When I went over to pick it up I remembered that I failed to ask HOW MUCH ?
Imagine my surprise when she showed me the box and then I finally asked – with tax $16.01 I couldn't get to the money in my pocket quick enough. I didn't have a penny but she had already got one out of the dish by the register when she saw that I had a $20 in my hand. I told her thank you and left – I thought $20 was cheaper than I thought it was going to be.
Bottom line – I have a new home for the bits albiet a flawed home but one heck of a nice roof and again a totally unnecessary build but it shows what I've been saying all along – That's what I meant to dobelow are pics of my error – more later about gluing things and thanks for looking
blast away about my glue process and the butt joint – i'd like to hear opinions

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