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    Default Fixing Sides to Tray

    Friends lent us their Macadamia nut cracker, so I'm returning it mounted on a wooden tray.

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    What is the best way to attach the sides to the base? Due to the effort required to crack the nuts, I want the base to sit on the table, so can't use the usual method of cutting a groove in the sides for the base. I was thinking of either dowels, after glueing it together or put grooves in the sides of the base & tray sides, then using strips of 3mm ply in the grooves. I know that by not having the base floating in the sides that there could be problems with timber movement, but I'll use WOP finish to try to fully seal it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 62woollybugger View Post
    What is the best way to attach the sides to the base? Due to the effort required to crack the nuts, I want the base to sit on the table, so can't use the usual method of cutting a groove in the sides for the base.
    Possibly too late now, but you could still use the same groove method if you make your grooves narrower than the thickness of the board and cut matching rebates on the edges of the board so it still sits flat on the bottom.

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    Took elanjacobs advice , so broke ot the trusty Record 405 & Stanley 78. Finished with a couple of coats of satin evolution hard wax oil, almost too good to bolt an old nutcracker to. Can someone tell me what the timber is, my knowledge of timber is very limited.

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    Nice one

    Looks a lot like Brushbox to me

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