Red cedar and Silky oak medal box

**groeneaj** · 15th August 2017, 03:35 PM

Originally Posted by Dengue

Well done Andy, and many thanks for sharing. It certainly is a beautiful box. The finger lift is quite distinctive, great design!

Can you please tell us a bit about the lid design and construction? Eg., the frame thickness, the panel thickness, and how the silky oak panel fits in the frame. Are the frame sides morticed and tenon jointed? What made you do that joint rather than a mitred joint on the frame?

Hey mate,

The lid is a frame and panel design with a tongue cut on all four sides of the panel (silky oak) which then sits in a groove around the frame. Both the frame and panel are the exact same thickness.

The frame is joined with dominoes, but you could also do a bridle joint or mortise and tenon. I really like the look of the frame and panel for a lid. There's nothing wrong with a mitred frame, I personally like this look better and it's what the customer wanted also.

The pic below should make it a lot clearer.

Cheers

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**Dengue** · 15th August 2017, 04:09 PM

Thanks for this information, Andy, it is very helpful for my next box. Another case of a picture worth a thousand words. Nice bit of workmanship getting the tongue and grove exactly right, and allowing for expansion of the panel.

One advantage of that type of frame over the mitre jointed frame is that it is far more suited to the strap hinge you use, in that the tiny corner point of the outside of the mitre joint tends to break away when the slot for the strap hinge is being cut. It becomes quite unsightly

**Rex Ashwell** · 15th August 2017, 06:15 PM

Beautiful boxes - great wood, great design, perfect dovetails - what's not to like.

Rex

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