Perfect Joinery for a Blanket Chest…
December 16, 2008 by admin
Filed under Router Tips
Today’s tip is about the rabbet/dado joint. In this tip we show how the joint is to be created, some of the problems with the geometry and the quickest way to produce the joint. This joinery was used in Episode 504 to create a raised panel blanket chest.
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Never thought of using a rabbet joint for a blanket box of which I have made many with finger joints, leigh-jig dovetails and recently with traditional methods at a Lee Valley workshop in Edmonton. Would making the dado along the grain not mean that the grain is oriented perpendicular in the front of the box? Have to try this out in my next blanket box.
Great job of presentation !
I have used this joint in the past (although with a lot more sweat and worry) for several small boxes about 5 inches high. It worked great !
How do you get your height for a blanket box ? Aren’t they at least 24 inches high ? The kind that sits at the foot of the bed ?
Bo
The size of my Blanket Boxes 21″ high X 18″ wide X 36″ long. This particular project is made of raised panel sides with the rabbet/dado joint used to tie the corners together.
Rick, I enjoy your tips, about the router you have got me excited it, and I don’t even do any woodworking I would like to know about the material that is bolted to the top of the router table and where did you get it, it looks like it never wears out.
John
John:
The material is called polyethylene and can be found at any plastic distributor in your area. If you want the fences that are made from this material then http://www.oak-park.com is the place to go.
I have used this joint many time using your router table which I made from your plans. I have used the joint making two Grandfather clocks and a Hope Chest. However, i went to great pains to make the joints fit flush using a traditional fence. I never thought of using your box joint fences of which i have a set.
Thanks for this great tip.
The products and tips from this web site work great.
I would like some tips on making picture frames from wood. Do you have any video of that? I watched your show all the time it was on, if I wasn’t working. Great show, too bad that you couldn’t keep on the air.
Thanks