Final Project Process( Includes every day)

Day 1:
For the first day, I only ripped the bottom, top, and sides of my future wooden box because I needed to have those parts in order to get the correct measurements for the front and backs part that will fit into the sides and settle on the bottom part.

Day 2: For the next day I focused on adding the edge banding to the top, bottom, and side parts of the wooden chest even before getting the measurements for the front and back parts because the edge banding adds a little bit more of material. After all that was done I used clamps to hold the side pieces to the bottom in order to measure the space in between and get the width for the my front and back side. After, getting the measurements I ripped two pieces based on the space between the sides that were placed on the bottom of the chest, and then I added edge banding on top of the front and back parts because when the lid(top part) is opened the top parts of the front and back will be exposed.

Day 3:
 I continued assembling my chest on this day, and initially I was going to connect the parts with either screws or staples( That's what I thought I was going to do on Day 1, but by Day 2 I already knew and had started to do some pocket screwing), but instead it was determined that pocket screwing was the way to go because the pocket screws would go on the inside part of the chest so it would not be visible on the outside. This was not very hard to do for the the sides(finished on Day 2), but pocket screwing the front and back parts did get more challenging because assembling clamps on them was trickier and I had to move in weird constraining angles in order to inset the pocket screws with the drill. However, in order to fix that issue after putting the back part I decided  to move the chest vertically so that it was sitting on one of the sides rather than on its bottom, and that way I could more easily and accurately insert the pocket screws for the front part.



Day 4:
This day I added the top lid, with a long piano hinge that ran along for most of the chest's width. Initially, I had a a smaller hinge that was less than half the size of the chest because I did not consider the fact that most chests have a hinge or hinges that run along most of the chest's width in order to provide the most support. Nevertheless, I put clamps on the top part of the hinge that was flush with the edge of the top lid and the back part, so that I could add the screws on the top part of the hinge then after that I did a similar process for the bottom part of of the hinge. After, I was done placing the hinge, I went on to work on the border for the chest which was going to be made from scrap pieces of  maple wood. I ripped all the four necessary pieces, so that they would be of equal width since they were originally uneven.Two of the maple wood pieces ran all the way through on the front and back sides, and the other two pieces of maple wood for the side went inside the two pieces  for the front and back sides. Next, I used the power miter saw to cut the pieces of maple wood into their correct lengths. After this I tried assembling the maple wood pieces. I encountered a lot of issues with this part because I had not thought it out too much. I thought I could just somehow screw them in, but that was not the case. First, I glued two pieces of maple wood to the front and back parts, but I still had to add some nails into them in order to make it more secure. Thus, I utilized a very thin twist drill bit to make a hole into the maple wood because it is very hard wood and just hammering in a nail would be difficult, but unfortunately I eventually broke the twist drill bit. Hence, I had to resort to just hammering in the nails into the maple, which did not go so well because I kept bending them. Therefore, I had to resort to using the pneumatic stapler to finish adding the nails to the two maple pieces in the front and back parts and then again for the two maple pieces on the sides( after gluing them in). This whole part took a lot longer than I expected. Finally, after all this was done Professor Tim suggested that I add a lid hinge because without it, the piano hinge on the back could be put under a lot of strain and as a result break, so I will be doing this for Day 5.