Framed Crate

This crate ended up looking a little fancy, but it was made from an unknown wood from the inside (frame and drawer rails) of a chest of drawers.  And pine from a bed end. It is roughly the size of a milk-crate (300mm³).

Pieces for the main frame. Lots of screw holes...
Top and bottom framed up, connected to ensure they stay square and the sizes match
Vertical pieces
Cut top and bottom and main frame is complete
Adding in horizontal dividers
Most of the frame

Adding the lapped dovetails on the base supports was a bit of a mistake, as this made assembling and disassembling more complicated.  It will add strength to stop the bottom splaying though...

Resawn pine to make the panels
Outside
Inside (fairly flush...)
Dry fit
Added "rustic" chamfers to all the frame pieces

Glued together in stages.  Added glue to just some inner joints on the sides, and then assembled so that they dried in the correct positions. Then disassembled and glued the next set of joints and repeated.  This was very fiddly but meant the glue-up wasn't too rushed and everything mostly fitted all the way through.

This also meant that the side frame (H pieces) could be planed/sanded flush before inserting into the outer frame, which would have got in the way as the sides are inset from the main cube.

Numerous holes filled with putty & sanded etc.
First added a coat of boiled linseed oil
Then a few coats of shellac

The final result has a nice contrast of wood colours and grain directions.

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