How To Build A Gin Cleaning Box

This project was commissioned past my best friend'southward girlfriend FOR my all-time friend (who I accept been friends with since second grade).

I was told that he liked the 'gun cleaning kit' in the Cabella's catalog and wanted ane for Christmas. Well, she decided to commission me to make one instead of ordering it from the catalog. I told her that if she would pay for the materials I would do the work for gratuitous, which too left more room in her upkeep for meliorate materials.

Here is the Cabella'due south version:

Hither are my Sketchup drawings:

The principal difference in design is the mode the lid opens. I plan to make my hat open like two wings. This will allow for a larger work infinite to set cleaning supplies (and go on them off the bench). I will also engineer the hinges and so that when you open the ii lids the artillery which concur the burglarize automatically swing into identify like a pop-upward volume.

My box volition also have a locking chapeau and a brass rod which slips through the height of the box down into the drawer fronts to keep them locked much similar a craftsman tool box. The rod tin only exist taken out when the lid is open up. All hardware volition be premium solid brass.

I chose a piece of Bloodwood three/4"x13"x5' for the project. I am trying to expand my working noesis of different species of hardwoods. I have never worked with Bloodwood before. Its gorgeous merely non inexpensive.

I spent quite a bit of time sketching and drawing the joinery and proportions on newspaper before I made the Sketchup figurer drawings:

Here it is cut into the main dimensions for the sides of the box:

I had to stop because I realized that my new jointer is non set up and that would have been the next step. Like always, I'll keep posting the progress.

-- Happy woodworking!