Joinery methods used: miter joint, box joint, dowel joint, and just using some screws.
I have maybe touched a hand-held drill twice in my life and woodworking as a whole is a foreign thing to me. What I learned from this exercise is that it’s incredibly tedious and leaves a lot of room for error.
I wanted to make as many cuts as possible because the saws scare me. A shock to no one, nerves != neat joints. I didn’t take into account that some of the wood is taken out with the saw because it has a thickness, and so a lot of my joints aren’t as even as I hoped they would be. This meant I could make even more cuts in attempts to kind of fix it, but of course if I planned out a whole project I can't do that. However, the more I used the saw, I began to learn where I should line up my pieces of wood in order to get the dimensions I wanted. I learned that clamps are my new best friend when using the drill. Without them, it was really hard for me to drill straight down, and my screws got all crooked. I need to befriend the drill press, but at least I got some more practice with the hand-held drill.
MITER
Pretty straight forward, I've never used a table saw before, but being able to cut at an angle is really useful. I do have to clean up my glue work though.
BOX JOINT:
I actually did this one twice. I wish I could say the second time was better, but they were both janky. The first time was a tight fit, the second time, it was really loose. This is the one where I really think the drill press would have been better to use because when I drilled the holes they were really uneven and crooked. It also looks messy because I went glue crazy and
attempted to sand it down.
SOME SCREWS
Just to mix it up I just screwed two pieces of wood together. I didn't use clamps and you can tell.
A DOWEL JOINT
This is the one where my saw job really messed up my alignment. I ended up re-cutting before gluing the dowel down to align the edges because it was not pretty.
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