AndyUK's Build - 1.2x1.0m Gantry

[AndyUK]

And last, but by no means least, my Daughter's Christmas present. I took a few months over this one, which probably says more about how little free time we get these days!

I saw the solid oak toy boxes from makemesomethingspecial - and was utterly obsessed. I had to make one, and now I have an excuse to have a toy box around... So off I went to find some appropriate oak, and into CAD I went. Here is the result - although again I've removed her name which is carved in the front through the wonder of Google's magic eraser (hasn't it done an amazing job matching the grain?!) - Complete with the box's owner playing peak-a-boo inside. Don't worry for her hands, the hinges are rockler's torsion spring hinges, so the lid stays exactly where its left.



One of the features I really love are the finger joints. Because I lack manual woodworking skills, I decided they had to be fully CNCed. So I chose the round the edges of the fingers to match the cutters radius on the internal corners. This meant not only rounding them in the profile cut, but also using a matched round over bit on the back face of each piece.



And then of course the lid needed some inlays. I couldn't think of anything better than the Disney Winnie the pooh quote, so I went with that alongside some purple-heart purple hearts. Corny? Yeah. But cute, too.