Everything I've built in my woodshop so far has been straight and square. I'm looking to take on another dimension and try something new by creating a trunk with a curved lid. I thought there would be a lot more tutorials online, but I couldn't find much. Two methods I thought of personally was 1 calculating the angles needed on each board across the top to make the curve. 2, bond a bunch of boards together using t&g, build some curve forms, and slowly bend the panel across the forms.

The wood I plan to use is oak. The angle method sounds challenging as it would be hard to cut each board to the exact with and angle of the given dimensions.