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Jewelry Box Instructions

Step 1 - Get Lumber

Go pick out a 1"x6"x8' board from the lumber rack in the back of the room.

Step 2 - Layout Lumber

Use the cut layout on the project building sheet posted at the front of the room. It will show the layout to the cuts you need to make.

You will need to cut out a front, side, back and side to your jewelry box. Unfortunately, the sides of your jewelry box are too short to run thought on the jointer or planer, so you will have to cut them with the front or back. So you will need 2 pieces 22.5" long (each will make a front or back and side). These two pieces need to be cut out side by side on the board. You will also need 2 lid pieces 13.5" long. Keep the rest of the board, it will later be used for the little box inside the jewelry box.
Make sure to leave about 1/8" between your pieces. This is called the kerf. The term "kerf" described the thickness of the cut that a woodworking saw blade makes in a piece of wood as it cuts through it. If you do not allow 1/8" kerf, your board will be too short to build your project in the end.

Step 2-1 Laying out Lumber

Step 2-2 Laying out Lumber

Step 3 - Instructor check

Have the instructor check your layout.

Step 4 - Rough Cut on CMS

Cut your pieces apart on the compound mitre saw.

Step 5 - Face Side

On the jointer, joint a face side on your 22.5" pieces.

Step 6 - Face Edge

On the jointer, joint one face edge on your 22.5" pieces. Also joint both face edges of the 2 - 13.5" lid pieces.

Step 7 - Thickness

Using the planner, plane the non jointed side of the 22.5" long pieces to 5/8" thick.

Step 8 - Width - Table Saw

Rip your 2- 22.5" pieces to 4.5 " wide.

Step 8 Cutting your board to width

Step 9 - Make dado grooves - Table Saw

On your 22.3 pieces make 3 dado grooves.

Two of the grooves will be located 5/16" in from the edge.
The last dado groove will be in the middle of the board, located at 2 1/8" from the edge.
Make sure your jointed edge is against the fence when cutting.

Step 9 Dado Grooves

Step 10 - Cross cut - Table Saw

Cut your 22.5 board into pieces A,B,C. You will need to first trim the end of your board then cut your C pieces to 7.5". Nest cut your A and B pieces to 13".

Step 10 Cross cutting

Step 11 – Glue lid for the Jewelry box

This step can be done at anytime after ripping your boards to width.

Glue together the two 13.5” pieces of wood into a panel to make the lid of your jewelry box.

You will need to use the orange bar or pipe clamps. DO NOT use the blue clamps, they will make your wood glue in a curve.
You will need 3 clamps. Camp up your project without any glue to make sure everything lines up nicely. Then get an adult to check you dry clamp before gluing.

Layout out 3 orange pipe clamps on the table about 12” apart.
Lay your two board inside the clamps with the end grain alternating.
- The end grain should go happy, sad, happy, sad. This is to help prevent cupping or warping.
- Your clamps should be about 3” in from each end.
Put a clamp on the top of the boards in the middle , this helps prevent the board from cupping when gluing.
Check to make sure the edges that will be glue together are touch along the whole length. If you see any gap between the board. Rejoint the edge of the boards before gluing.
Have it checked.
Gluing – put regular glue (not waterproof) glue on each edge of the boards that will be joined. Spread out the glue along the whole edge with the glue brush. Then clamp the pieces together. Make sure the pieces line up flush with each other. If they do not, you can use a blue clamp from the top to the bottom of the board to line them up. See picture.
Remove your wet glue on the panel before leaving it to dry. Use a wet paper towel to wipe of all the left-over glue. It will save you lots of time and effort later.

More information Gluing & Truing Large Panels (woodmagazine.com) www.woodmagazine.com/wood-supplies/glues-adhesives/gluing-truing-large-panels

Step 12 How to make rabbet connections

Step 12 – Rabbet – Dado Table Saw

On the end of pieces A and B you are going to make rabbet joints.

Lock out the table saw. Use the dado setup sheet beside the dado blade set. It will help you know what blades to use and which direction to locate the blades. You are setting up the dado blade to 5/8”. For 5/8” you will need the two outside blades and 3 chips that are 1/8” each. Make sure the carbide teeth do not line up with each other.
The height of the blade should be 5/16” (half the thickness of your wood). The rabbet should be just a tinny bit
Once set up get the teacher to check it.
ake a practise cut first on scrape wood. When making your practise cut, you are checking to see if you have the blades set up to the correct width and height. Once the cut is made place your piece C into the rabbet. If setup correctly, your piece C will be flush with the end grain of the practise piece. If not, you need to adjust the fence or adjust the width of the blades. Also check to make sure the rabbet is about half the depth of your wood and a little bit deeper than your dados.

Step 13 – Cutting Plywood bottom – Rough cut plywood

At the back of the room, in the plywood rack, last section, find a ¼ piece of plywood that is 8 ½” wide. If there is none see the teacher so the two of you can cut a piece on the panel saw.

Rough cut the piece to 13” long on the Compound mitre saw

Step 14 – Cutting Plywood bottom to correct size - CMS

Put 1 side and 1 end of your box together. Place the plywood into the dado slot. Then to find your measurement put the other end onto your box. You are going to measure the difference between the inside edge of the side and the inside edge of the rabbet. The distance is going to be how much you need to cut off. Do the same thing to find the distance between the front and the back.

When you cut your plywood remember the long edge goes against the object to drive it straight. So when you cut down the length of the plywood it is ripping with the fence. When you are cutting the narrower distance (width) you are crosscutting and using the crosscut box.

Step 14 How to cut your plywood bottom to the correct size

Step 15 - Sand

Using an electric sander. Sand all edges of your wood. DO NOT PUSH ON THE SANDER, hold the sander and let it do the work. You will wreck the sander if you push on it.

Do not sand your rabbets, if they are not very clean see the teacher for further instructions.

Sand with 80 Grit (Blue)
Sand with 120 Grit (Red)
Sand with 180 Grit (Green)
Sand with 220 Grit (Black)

For you plywood only sand with 180 and 220 grit.

Step 16 - Cut the slot for the lid to the Jewelry box – Band saw

You can watch video 'Part 1How to cut the slot for the lid to the Jewelry box and Part 2 How to cut the slot for the lid to the Jewelry box’

Step 16 -1 How to cut the slot Part 1

Step 16 -2 How to cut the slot Part 2

Do any touch up sanding before you glue together your jewelry box

Step 17 - Dry clamp your box together

Dry clamp your project together. You are going to be using 4 of the red Bessey clamps.

Make sure you do the following

2 clamps will go across the width of the box put them underneath the project when clamping
2 clamps across the length of the box put them above the project when clamping
- Make sure the clamps are covering the height of the box, or else the part not clamped can have gaps and your project will not be as strong
When placing the clamps near the rabbet, do not place the clamp on the end grain of the board.
Make sure all corners have putted together without gap. If there is gap, your plywood is probably too large. Trim it on the table saw.
Use a square to check and see if it is glued up square. If it is not square, measure from corner to corner. On the longer distance we can put a blue clamp across it and tighten until the distance from corner to corner is the same.

Get it checked by the teacher before gluing!

Step 18 - Glue your box together

Where to put glue?

When placing your glue on your project, you only need to place glue on the rabbet joint edges. This means you need glue on the end grains of the box side and the rabbet joint on the front and back of your box. Do not put glue in the dado joint where the plywood bottom is.

To not forget to clean up the wet left over glue.

After all your clamps are on and your project is square (90 degree corners), you need to remove all the wet glue that has come out of the edges. Use a wet paper towel and a puddy knife to remove all the wet glue. This step is a lot easier when the glue is wet.

Our Jewelry Box

Jewelry Box Instructions

Step 1 - Get Lumber

Go pick out a 1"x6"x8' board from the lumber rack in the back of the room.

Step 2 - Layout Lumber

Step 2-1 Laying out Lumber

Step 2-2 Laying out Lumber

Step 3 - Instructor check

Step 4 - Rough Cut on CMS

Step 5 - Face Side

Step 6 - Face Edge

Step 7 - Thickness

Step 8 - Width - Table Saw

Step 8 Cutting your board to width

Step 9 - Make dado grooves - Table Saw

Step 9 Dado Grooves

Step 10 - Cross cut - Table Saw

Step 10 Cross cutting

Step 11 – Glue lid for the Jewelry box

Step 12 How to make rabbet connections

Step 12 – Rabbet – Dado Table Saw

Step 13 – Cutting Plywood bottom – Rough cut plywood

Step 14 – Cutting Plywood bottom to correct size - CMS

When you cut your plywood remember the long edge goes against the object to drive it straight. So when you cut down the length of the plywood it is ripping with the fence. When you are cutting the narrower distance (width) you are crosscutting and using the crosscut box.

Step 14 How to cut your plywood bottom to the correct size

Step 15 - Sand

Step 16 - Cut the slot for the lid to the Jewelry box – Band saw

Step 16 -1 How to cut the slot Part 1

Step 16 -2 How to cut the slot Part 2

Do any touch up sanding before you glue together your jewelry box

Step 17 - Dry clamp your box together

Get it checked by the teacher before gluing!

Step 18 - Glue your box together

Where to put glue?

To not forget to clean up the wet left over glue.

Step 17 and 18 How to Glue your box together

What size does your lid need to be?

Cutting your little box on the mitre shear

How to flock your jewelry box

Marking sheet

Our Jewelry Box

Jewelry Box Instructions

Step 1 - Get Lumber

Go pick out a 1"x6"x8' board from the lumber rack in the back of the room.

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Step 2 - Layout Lumber

Step 2-1 Laying out Lumber

Step 2-2 Laying out Lumber

Step 3 - Instructor check

Step 4 - Rough Cut on CMS

Step 5 - Face Side

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Step 6 - Face Edge

Step 7 - Thickness

Step 8 - Width - Table Saw

Step 8 Cutting your board to width

Step 9 - Make dado grooves - Table Saw

Step 9 Dado Grooves

Step 10 - Cross cut - Table Saw

Step 10 Cross cutting

Step 11 – Glue lid for the Jewelry box

Step 12 How to make rabbet connections

Step 12 – Rabbet – Dado Table Saw

Step 13 – Cutting Plywood bottom – Rough cut plywood

Step 14 – Cutting Plywood bottom to correct size - CMS

When you cut your plywood remember the long edge goes against the object to drive it straight. So when you cut down the length of the plywood it is ripping with the fence. When you are cutting the narrower distance (width) you are crosscutting and using the crosscut box.​​​

Step 14 How to cut your plywood bottom to the correct size

Step 15 - Sand

Step 16 - Cut the slot for the lid to the Jewelry box – Band saw

Step 16 -1 How to cut the slot Part 1

Step 16 -2 How to cut the slot Part 2

Do any touch up sanding before you glue together your jewelry box

Step 17 - Dry clamp your box together

Get it checked by the teacher before gluing!

Step 18 - Glue your box together

Where to put glue?

To not forget to clean up the wet left over glue.

Step 17 and 18 How to Glue your box together

What size does your lid need to be?

Cutting your little box on the mitre shear

How to flock your jewelry box

Marking sheet

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When you cut your plywood remember the long edge goes against the object to drive it straight. So when you cut down the length of the plywood it is ripping with the fence. When you are cutting the narrower distance (width) you are crosscutting and using the crosscut box.