Thread: Rustic style potato storage box made from recycled Rimu (NZ native timber)

Ok I have not done any woodworking since I left school so you may as well say I am still learning and also learning what mistakes to not make again. I have made a couple of these bins before from pine one I am using right now but I was not happy with how I made or joined them together as everything was just bits of wood just butted up against each other with a strip of timber screwed across the tops and bottoms of these particular bins. With this current bin I am making for a friend I am doing things different with the joining the wood panels together to make each side I have dowel jointed all of the butt joints while making my sides, when assembling everything to form the actual box I have cut rebates with the router down the edges of two of the box sides to make lap joints this is so far the only area that I have used screws and I am happy about that even though I know I wil have to use them when I put the strips of wood across the top and bottoms of the sides and when I also put in the base which will be made from pine as that part never gets seen.

All of the timber you see in the pictures I have ripped myself from old wall studs and framing on my triton MK3 using my old japan made 235mm ryobi W840C with a 20T ripping blade, the only way you can get rimu these days is if you buy from demolition yards or privately from those who have sourced it from house demolitions and I do not mind having to mill it down myself to get the wood dimensions I want. Some of the timber I have used hand planes or a sander to tidy it up

one of the last sides to be made and currently sitting in the clamps waiting for the glue to dry while I am writing this post before I can do the final trim up and rebate cut, by the way this side is now fully assembled in this pic it was only half done

Rimu bin1.jpg


Some of the assembly work I have done today from the sides I made up last weekend (damn it the sideways fairy struck again)


Rimu bin2.jpg


rimu bin3.jpg


Rimu bin4.jpg

More progress pics to come