Pine Crate Tool Chest

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Dave Canterbury, David Canterbury, The Pathfinder School,Bush Craft ,Survival skills, Historical Lore, Primitive Skills, Archery, Hunting, Trapping, Fishing, Navigation, Knives, Axes, Fire, Water, Shelter, Search and Rescue

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morning guys I'm Dave Canterbury with the Pathfinder school in I think it's time for me to build a box to pack some of my larger woodworking tools and with crafty tools into I've got a smaller type carry box like a carpenter style box to carry some of my smaller woodworking tools in but I really don't have anything to transfer or something much larger

you know broad axis and felling axes and large piece of equipment like carpenters ads and things that you would use to do major-league wood processing with and because we've got the Pathfinder gathered than that pretty soon I need to give some way to transport some of that stuff for some demonstrations that we're gonna have together I thought today we're just building quick and easy crate if you will the transporter woodworking tools in from pine you stay with me we'll be starting okay so we're making a couple real simple tool boxes here to transport tools in and I've decided to make it 40 inches long so that my longest would handle tool which is my adds and my felling axe will fit into this that should give me a nice big flat box that I can use not only for bench top if I need to an emergency but I can also use it to store all of my major woodworking tools and we'll talk about that in a few minutes

now again I'm just trying to get myself a nice serviceable box that's gonna last I'm not trying to do a bunch of fancy joinery I've pre-drilled three holes here and I'm using just inch and a half drywall screws

I think drywall screws are one of the best things ever invented for putting stuff together I've put everything together with these drywall screws from boxes to boats and they've never let me down you can get them in a lot of different sizes under not that expensive so I ran a glue line across here piloted three holes through the first piece and then screw it into this piece I don't split this one out that's going to give me a good serviceable joint right there that's gonna last a long time okay so again we're just making a simple box here to hold some of our tools and it's gonna be more like a crate type box that will have wooden handles on it and I'll just have a fitting fitted to lid not hinges or anything like that that will sit on top of it and then we can use it like a packing crate type box what I've done here for my width is I've measured my 1 by tens which is what I'm using to make this out of the 1 by 10 stock so it's going to be that high but it's about nine and a half inches double that is going to give me my 18 and a half inch width here so that's how long this board is that allows me to use two boards for the bottom and two boards for the top so I've got the length of 40 inches which gives me the longest wooden tool handle and I've got and then a width that's conducive to be able to use two boards side by side instead of comp bunch of complicated joinery I've got a very simple two boards butted up and that's where they go in the old days when stock wasn't exactly the right size and things like that and things varied and measurements varied and people want things certain lengths and certain widths they had to do a lot of complicated joinery when making boxes like this but for our purpose is very easy we have dimensional lumber from a lumberyard we know what the measurements are and we can adapt our box to those measurements to make it easy like we've done here with the 18 1/2 - width so that we can use 2 1 by 10 side by side here instead of having to do joinery to join them together when we're done we'll put a glue line in there but I'll be screw this together that's going to cause our joint I also show you an old-school way that they used to use to make joinery for two pieces that were butted up against each other linear here in just a minute called a pinch dog and I was just talking about how good dimensional lumber is it's funny because I just put this one on and it's flush on both ends here but it's sticking up probably a quarter of an inch on this side so if somewhere along the line these boards are not planed to the exact width it's not a big deal I can adjust for that just take a veneer pull it off of that it's probably I said a quarter of an inch but it's probably more like it's more like a quarter of an inch actually you can see the stick up right there on both sides and we're flush on the bottom so we'll have to adjust that for that real quick before we screw that in do a quick and dirty here and what kind of eyeball it wanted here we'll eyeball right here just saw that thing off real quick and we'll just make sure we're using this for the bottom of our box to see what

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all right so the bottom of our box and the top of a rock will be longer then he's 40 disciple which because we extended that length by putting these on the butt end so we're gonna want these 40 ones a half as you see right here where I couch just would just slightly with a saw blade cutting this off so we'll make this the bottom of our box God will be filled in easy enough so we need again this double check 41 a half should need two of those boards okay so we have our two folds in the old days of joinery you would run a seam line I hear you join this together probably before you put it on this box and then you would put a couple of straps across several runners and they would be clenched nailed it's all over the place and one of the things that they used to do in lieu of clamps and you can clamp this to seal this joint that you look at you see how much hood gaps in and you would clean the wood down so there was no gaps or he would clean it to a little bit of a crown for this type of jewelry and then you would squeeze them together somehow to hold that joint tell it was dry it would become a single piece of wood at that point that was laminated from the two and you would use that for the bottom of your box now one of the things that used to use to do that with what's called the pinch dog I'm going to show you what pitch dogs are right now okay so using a pinch dog what you would do is you would make sure that you had a good plain edge that you were going to use that was nice and square if anything it was crowned just a little bit then you would have probably not used adhesive like this obviously but she would have used some type of hot glue or some type of other gluing element that they had you need to run a glue line down that joint just like and I generally just run my finger up it to flatten it out like this get myself a good amount on there wipe off the excess then you would take your join you put it on another flat surface and I got a board sitting down here for that and you put that joint together and what you would do is you would take this small piece of metal that's wedged you can see it's wedged here and what that does is when you put that in the wood here and you tap it in with your hammer like this and then you come in on the other side and do the same thing it draws that wood together and you would do that on both ends of the board now when we lift this up we can see that there's some separation here and that's because there's a crown of the wood and that's okay we'll take our pinch to set it here and we'll start it on one side like this and then we'll push the other piece up flush get that gap closed as best we can and it has we hand with that pitch doggin it's going to pull that gap together just like that now we've got a gift fly joint there that's gonna seal up well and when you're done you would pull out those pinch dogs after your glue is dry and generally speaking you would make these pieces a little bit longer than you needed them so you could crosscut saw that off of there so that the marks or holes from these pinch dogs wouldn't be left in your lumber when you were done that's going to give you a nice tight joint you can see you squeeze with the blue right out of there right there so my plan now is because I have the pitch dogs in place I can go ahead and screw this bottom down all the way around if I want to and then remove the pitch dogs because I really don't care about the exposure of those two holes on the bottom of my box the top my box as I'm not trying to make a piece of cabinet er here I'm just making a storage crate for the most part okay so we've ran the Glee line all the way around now we went ahead and pre-drilled this one and real quick we've still got our pinch dog in place and you get this nice and square it up right here

and then we're going to screw this in down now we can flip the box around get everything showing up and center it up tighten her down taking these pinch dogs out there's a simple shoving screwdriver in there then you just pop right out just like that something very simple to make on a forge or to cut out sheet metal aware of a case may be that is a very useful item if you're doing much woodworking at all as far as making boxes and things like that with dimensional lumber okay so we've got the basis of our box mate here as far as the bottom of the side let everything dry then we can take a plane and when you square everything up if we wants you to make it look a little nicer one thing that we want to look at here is while we've got to stand upside down we're gonna have to put a couple runners on here maybe have 2x4 stock that will keep the bottom of the box from getting beat up and give us something to set up off the ground so the bottom doesn't collect moisture as well all right so runners in from the bottom here seven inches in from both sides you look pretty good and we glue them before we put them in there so there we've got one in the box to keep it off the ground keep the bottom protected a little bit better and now it's time to start work on the top remember our top just gonna be like a crate so she's gonna have a couple runners inside the lid once we're done to the pressure put it into the box basically okay so our top piss again gonna be two two by ten side by side here and I'll see which way they delay the tightest joint wise so that I can put my pinch dogs in there get that joint seal up and we'll put a couple straps across it we can pretty much sit on top of the box for this operation now [Applause]

now I'm going to go ahead you can plant here in the center of this thing just to pull this tight and hold it level that's a little bit bowed that what it is and I want that thing level so I'm gonna go ahead use a pipe clamp here I like these pipe clamps because number one key number two they're pretty easy to use you just find yourself a piece of half-inch threaded iron pipe you can buy these clamps office Amazon for about ten bucks something like that they work pretty well just clamp it all in like this show tight against the pipe yes and then just crank it down place now hold that thing together well your eyes and give me a good solid seal here and I'll be level again I can always plane that if I need to okay now the runners that are gonna go on this part of the lid are actually going to be to the inside of the box and they will be kind of what fits the lid to the box so it'll be the furthest point out here and the furthest point in here right on this end it'll flip over and spit inside the box don't lock that lid in place but this part we want to be smooth for a benchtop if we want to use this for a working surface as well as a tool box so we're not gonna put any straps under the outside of this like a normal packing crate without we're gonna throw our straps to the inside to make a pressure fit for the lid and we're going to leave this sort of this nice and flat and then point it off so that we can use it for a work surface if we need to so when we put this runner on basically this is what we're looking for we want to be 3/4 of an inch back here which is the thickness of our lumber and we want to be 3/4 of an inch back here here get that thing centered up and bolt it down so that when the lid flips over this board locks it this direction in this direction but will be inside the box and not outside on the water surface but we can work out here with it to get it all attached while this things drying that's not a big deal we can eyeball where that thing goes just by leaving our lid even on the box we could pretty much eyebags after that they're supposed to go up and exactly what they supposed to sit now this is a 17 inch board we need to cut inside the line of that 17 interest to make you just a little bit short so it's not a real sloppy fit but it's not really a friction friction fit either because we don't want to put any stress on the box I've cut this inside the line at 17 eyeballin over the top right now just to make sure it's gonna fit okay so I put a bunch of glue on this thing and I'm just gonna set this thing down on here move it around a little bit spread the glue out and eyeball things up if it's just a little bit further than three course here I don't care but I'm gonna take a tape measure cuz that's kind of a critical measurement this is almost exactly three quarters so I'd like to put this in just about an inch so it's got a quarter of an inch of play there and I can do it with all the glues drawn it I can move it easy enough you gotta have about three quarters on both sides that's pretty good now we could put this thing in with screws okay I'm gonna go ahead and plant this with a wood clamp on this side real quick just to hold it in place well they put some screws in it [Music]

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okay so once we get to that point we get those back screwed on pretty much have a tight fit of our lid here we should be able to put that thing in there slide it in play on each side which is what I wanted you guys zero play back and forth now let's look at this side here real fast yes okay yes so it doesn't matter which way we put the lid on it's gonna work now okay so what happened here was my sawing is off and this board's a little bit longer than this board is so I'm gonna shove this forward go ahead pull this pitch dog out it's like a straight line across here and saw that off so it's even that'll make it better with a box it's functional way it is but I don't like a little bit all right so we're gonna drill a couple of handle holes in here for rope handles and I'm gonna show you real simple to measure the spot I want to just turn our blocks of money

like this and only did was take a double length of this carpenter square squared it up here down on one thickness down to thicknesses came in six inches on this side just like this and then I sent man six inches on the other side I'm a little off square cousin like crown there there we go I can eyeball that pretty well so put a hole here in a hole here there's three quarters of an inch I'll be ready to go when I drill these holes I don't drill them all the way through I get my best centered it wouldn't matter if this was a hand drilling bit or an electric bill [Music]

come through the tip of that drill come through I'm going to stop I'll do the same thing on this side [Music]

then I'll go come up from the other side of the box so that I'll split the holes out I'll give me four nice nine holes I'm just gonna use simple rope here so I'm just going to tie an overhand knot and my rope right here just like this and tighten it down good pull it through decide how long I want my handles to be they really don't need to hit me in front of them down at the bottom of the box like this so I just assumed tie my knot right there and I'll just took you're twisting the line right there take an overhand bite like this rope right back to that bite just like that tighten it down pull that through and tighten it up that should give me a hand about the length of my box then I can just trim this off more number two Mexicans show hordes of that so that's one handle now I need one of the other side exactly like it okay so now we have a really good box we can put the majority of our logs would work with tools in Venice large felling axe here redone by Craig roost axe junkies this is a three and a half pound New Jersey style felling axe the carpenters adds here's I dug up in Texas that was redone by my buddy Chris wick when I started the Pathfinder school this large splitting head that was refat and redone by my buddy Chris wick as well came from Croatia it was a gift to me of course all of this stuff would have leather masks on I've got to make leather masks for some of this stuff yet I have another us for service felling axe that I recently redid myself my favorite bucking saw it tucked right in there and then a few of my handmade tools can go in there as well put my hand forwards fro down in there you can up my drawing on my stock knife did you Brock it from my stocking up and sit down aside there for stomping I can go ahead and put my Maul in there and if I wanted to I've got my brakes handle I made as well I can put a couple bits in there or I could put a reef add one in there different sizes here this one is a one-inch and this one is a two-inch and making holes and boring things like that and then any other tools that I want to put in there I've got plenty more room in there to put woodworking tools guys I hope you enjoyed this quick simple video on how to make a pint toolbox again it's just a simple crate but I thought it would be an interesting video to show how the wood goes together and talk to them about historical jewelry while we're at it we put this thing together with screws and wood glue didn't take very long to do it probably in real time less than an hour you notice we put this together it's going to hold well more than the large tools that I have I'm going to make another box now some of the other wouldn't I have that's a little bit smaller it's going to be specifically for saws and things like that and then I know there's

a box or smaller glued with the tools so those videos needed coming in future I appreciate you every day thank you for thank you for school program confirm business and all of our sponsors our tourism branch on the back