Joinery question

[Curtis Niedermier]

Anyone know how Paul Sellers attached the raised panel lid to his tool chest seen here: https://paulsellers.com/2013/11/tool-chest-today/

It's the first photo. Does he nail it in place? I want to put a similar lid on a small chest. Curious if there's a simple way to do it without metal fasteners that would show.

[Jim Koepke]

There may be blocks of wood inside with screws going into the top and the sides.

That is one way.

I do not follow Paul Sellers enough to know his methods in such situations.

jtk

[Lonnie Gallaher]

Well I took a look at his tool chest and saw this on one of the blog entries.



26 December 2011 at 9:00 am
Paul Sellers says:
All rails and divider are dovetailed. The rails are all 1 1/4 wide x 7/8″ thick but the dovetails only go the thickness of the 7/8″ way. The vertical divider is set the narrower way at 7/8″ on the face for looks and for space. These dovetails are set at 1/2″ deep.
The bottom frame is glued and screwed and the screw heads plugged. The top framed panel is screwed through the top rail of the front frame and also has 3/4″ 3/4″ screw rail around the inside rime of the box. To avoid screws, I don’t mind them at all, you could simply glue and clamp because you have n contention between long and crossgrain; You are gluing longrain to longrain all the way so it will hold fine. I wanted to get on with the work so often, screws for me are temporary clamps. I could take all of the screws out now if I wanted and the top and bottom would hold for a hundred years just fine.