JHZR2
Staff member
Like the panels in a pocket door.
I'm looking to make a toy box for my son, and want it to be something beyond a plywood box. I have my router, and I've had a circular and compound mitre saw for a long time. Anything more complex I can go do at my grandparents' house.
But my main questions are:
1) How do you make the panels in that door? I'd imagine with a real big router bit that just has a fairly shallow angle so that the slope from the center of the panel to the edge is over an inch or more.
2) The actual door structure has a finished edge on the inside where they form the panels' vertical border, but the cross-pieces (horizontal) both creates the horizontal inside edge for the panels, but also connects to the vertical parts of the door's structure. How does one do this cleanly? Would you stop the router on the vertical runs at the spots whe the horizontal ones would butt up, or do the horizontal pieces get routed on the ends with an inverse bit that would let them fit and overlap? If so, how would they be joined?
Now, on another note, I want this to be a toy box, but I'd want it to be longer lasting... Unlike the shelves I made where a finished edge and flat nature were all that really mattered, here I want it to be stainable and well finished. I'm contemplating making it out of cedar so that I can then repurpose it as storage for clothing or other soft goods after it is no longer needed as a toy box. Is cedar advisable?
While no where as fancy as the door shown, I am interested in making it with a "panel" structure, somewhat like the door shown (but just one panel per side). The panel itself wouldn't necessarily have its own raised feature to it, I was kind of thinking to use a nice stainable plywood or something. But what kind of wood would be advisable? It would be stained/shellacked most likely. I'd be afraid of mixing wood types, but does this really matter? Would doing something like finish grade birch plywood with oak for the "frame" be a no-no for matching? Wild making something like this from oak or other dense hardwood be an issue due to weight? I'd be somewhat concerned regarding the lid, which I'd like to be one large and slid piece of wood if it is sensible.
Thanks!
I'm looking to make a toy box for my son, and want it to be something beyond a plywood box. I have my router, and I've had a circular and compound mitre saw for a long time. Anything more complex I can go do at my grandparents' house.
But my main questions are:
1) How do you make the panels in that door? I'd imagine with a real big router bit that just has a fairly shallow angle so that the slope from the center of the panel to the edge is over an inch or more.
2) The actual door structure has a finished edge on the inside where they form the panels' vertical border, but the cross-pieces (horizontal) both creates the horizontal inside edge for the panels, but also connects to the vertical parts of the door's structure. How does one do this cleanly? Would you stop the router on the vertical runs at the spots whe the horizontal ones would butt up, or do the horizontal pieces get routed on the ends with an inverse bit that would let them fit and overlap? If so, how would they be joined?
Now, on another note, I want this to be a toy box, but I'd want it to be longer lasting... Unlike the shelves I made where a finished edge and flat nature were all that really mattered, here I want it to be stainable and well finished. I'm contemplating making it out of cedar so that I can then repurpose it as storage for clothing or other soft goods after it is no longer needed as a toy box. Is cedar advisable?
While no where as fancy as the door shown, I am interested in making it with a "panel" structure, somewhat like the door shown (but just one panel per side). The panel itself wouldn't necessarily have its own raised feature to it, I was kind of thinking to use a nice stainable plywood or something. But what kind of wood would be advisable? It would be stained/shellacked most likely. I'd be afraid of mixing wood types, but does this really matter? Would doing something like finish grade birch plywood with oak for the "frame" be a no-no for matching? Wild making something like this from oak or other dense hardwood be an issue due to weight? I'd be somewhat concerned regarding the lid, which I'd like to be one large and slid piece of wood if it is sensible.
Thanks!