Thread: Box lids

I'm making my first boxes from little scraps. Actually I just wanted to learn how to make box joints for the sides but I might as well add bases and lids and call it a box.
Although I don't want to go to too much effort because these are still test pieces.

Yesterday I milled some red cedar. It was so riddled with borer holes I only got a few scraps but I can make that work I think.

The sides are Karri scraps. A bit too small height wise but I could just slap the red cedar on top and bottom and call it a box. I haven't measured yet but I think my side pieces came out approx 7mm thick.

It would come out approx 100 x 150. and 70 high.

My question is about the thin cedar parts for top and bottom. Will these move and pull the little box apart? Or is something that small not a big issue?

For the lid I don't have a hinge small enough for that so I'm trying to decide what to do about that.

Rather than glue the lid on and then run the box over the saw to cut the lid off, I am thinking I'll just cut a rectangular part and call it the lid. Is this a bad idea?

It's just that I'm not real confident about making such an accurate cut with the workcentre.

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