Hello and Thanks
Long time lurker, first post.
Small home and love of silence has me using only hand tools for my wood working. Cats love the shavings so that's, I suppose, a plus also.
I only like to make boxes. Hard woods, smaller than a shoe box. No lids- that's still too tough for me.
So- 5 pieces of wood cut and assembled. Should be easy right? Nope. I can't cut, chisel, plane, or sand straight yet.
I say I like to make boxes, mostly I make firewood and sawdust. Chips. Curls.
Or mostly I sharpen wonderful old tools.
I'm still having issues w/ the corners of my boxes but they are improving thanks to patience and practice.
What I'm perpetually unhappy w/ is the floor of every box.
When I used power machines I would just rout the inside lower edges of the box- the floors fit perfectly.
Now w/ handtools (and non-mitered box corners) that style doesn't work.
(Leaves that ugly exposed rabbet looking out from the corner)
I can't cut a blind rabbet, they always look terrible so I've started trying to cut/chisel/plane the edges of the floor so that it still insets a bit, leaving only the lowest edge of it exposed.
How the heck are people attaching floors to small boxes? There are endless videos/writeups about dovetails, finger joints, and other corner methods but seemingly not much on the box's bottom.
Anyone have a suggestion?
Thanks
-Peter