Kumiko Box Build Process

20/8/2022

After a stop for lunch, I took the clamps off:

Another view:

This is the joint with the dodgy mitre: it's not perfect, but it's a lot better than it was:

Going back to the 4 mm walnut pieces, as they were resawn from the same piece of walnut, they could be positioned such that they formed a nice bookmatched pattern:

By using both of the bookmatched pieces, I can maintain the pattern all the way around the inside face of the lining (or at least that's the theory). I used the same method as before to chop the walnut bits into pieces and squared them up on the shooting board:

I then used a marking gauge to mark the height I wanted the lining to be.

I could then saw the lining pieces slightly oversize:

... and square the corners all round on the shooting board. The height isn't especially important, but it's critical that the two long edges are parallel with each other (so I can reference off either of them when shooting the mitres) and that all the pieces are the same height (so they meet at the corners):

Once the pieces were squared all round, I could shoot the mitres, gradually taking more material off until they were a snug fit in the box:

Before gluing them in, I used my thin 3D printed bench stop and a card scraper to give the inside faces a once over:

With that, the linings were all ready...

... to be glued into place:

Apart from any final card scraping and oiling, that's the base finished I think. There's plenty more in the way of challenge yet though: the lid is the next job.

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