Beginner Hand Tool Woodworking Project. Spalted Beech Pencil Case.

Summary

In this woodworking video, the host constructs a simple pencil case using only hand tools. He starts by splitting a pre-dimensioned board with a large tenon saw and proceeds to plane and square the pieces. The project involves creating rebates for the sliding lid and base, ensuring allowance for wood expansion. The host skillfully assembles the box, attaches a pull piece to the lid for easy opening, and finishes the project with a food-safe, clear finish that enhances the natural grain of the spotted beach wood.

Takeaways

• 🔨 The video is a woodworking tutorial focused on creating a simple pencil case using hand tools.
• 📝 The project is inspired by viewer requests for a basic woodworking project and the creator's personal need for a pencil case to hold sketching materials.
• 🎁 The creator received a large tenon saw as a birthday gift and uses this video as an opportunity to try it out.
• 🪵 The pencil case is made from a piece of spotted beach wood that was planked a year ago and has a nice figure.
• 🚫 The project emphasizes using only hand tools, making it accessible for beginners or those without power tools.
• 📏 The process involves splitting a board, planing it to thickness, and squaring up the edges to prepare the wood for the pencil case.
• 📐 The creator demonstrates how to find the center of a board for precise cutting and marking.
• 🛠️ Techniques such as shooting (using a shooting board for straight edges) and mortising (creating rebates for the box's sliding fit) are covered.
• 🔍 Attention is given to wood movement due to moisture, with allowances made in the design to prevent the box from cracking.
• 🛎️ The final pencil case features a sliding lid with a handle cut from the box's front, maintaining the aesthetic of a closed box.
• 🌳 The use of food-safe finish highlights the natural beauty of the spotted beach wood, suitable for a desk accessory.

Q & A

What is the main project being discussed in the video?

The main project in the video is making a pencil case using basic woodworking hand tools.

Why did the creator choose to make a pencil case?

The creator chose to make a pencil case because it is a basic woodworking project, it was requested by viewers, and the creator needed a place to store pencils and sketching materials.

What special tool did the creator receive for his 40th birthday?

The creator received a Bad Axe large tenon saw for his 40th birthday.

What type of wood is being used for the pencil case?

Spotted beach wood, which was planked up about a year ago and taken from the river, is being used for the pencil case.

How does the creator plan to split the board for the pencil case?

The creator plans to split the board using the large tenon saw, starting from the corner and following the marked lines to ensure a straight cut.

What is the significance of marking the center of the board?

Marking the center of the board helps in accurately splitting it in half, ensuring that the pencil case components are symmetrical and well-balanced.

What is the purpose of using a shooting board in this project?

The shooting board is used to square up the edges of the wood pieces and to ensure that the cuts are straight and accurate.

How does the creator ensure the box components fit together well?

The creator ensures the box components fit together by marking and cutting the pieces to the same dimensions, using a shooting board to square the edges, and checking for squareness at each step.

What is the reason for cutting the rebates or grooves in the sides and ends of the box?

The rebates or grooves are cut to accommodate the sliding lid and base of the pencil case, ensuring a snug fit and smooth operation.

Why is it important to allow for wood expansion when making the base and lid of the box?

Allowing for wood expansion prevents the box from cracking or coming apart due to changes in humidity, as hardwood expands and contracts across the grain.

How does the creator plan to finish the pencil case?

The creator plans to finish the pencil case with a food-safe, clear, and odorless natural oil finish to enhance the wood's natural beauty and protect it.

Outlines

00:00

😀 Introduction to the Pencil Case Project

The video begins with the host welcoming viewers to a woodworking workshop and introducing a project to create a simple pencil case. The reasons for choosing this project include requests from viewers for a basic woodworking project, the host's recent interest in sketching which requires a place to store sketching materials, and the desire to use a new large tenon saw received as a birthday gift. The host plans to make the entire pencil case from a single piece of spotted beach wood that was planked a year ago and taken from a river.

05:01

🔨 Splitting the Board and Initial Planing

The host demonstrates how to split the pre-dimensioned board in half using the large tenon saw, despite it not being the ideal tool for the job. After finding the center of the board and marking it, the host proceeds to make the cut, emphasizing the importance of following the marked lines for accuracy. The process involves starting at the corner and working towards the center, ensuring the cut is deep and straight. The host also discusses the need to plane the split boards to achieve the desired thickness and flatness, highlighting the imperfections in the cut and the softness of the spotted beach wood.

10:02

📏 Marking and Cutting the Pencil Case Components

The host moves on to mark out the components for the pencil case from the split boards, aiming to avoid knots and other imperfections. The dimensions for the sides and ends are marked, with a decision to incorporate a book match into the design. The host then cuts the pieces to size using the shooting board and tenon saw, ensuring the cuts are straight and the pieces are identical in size. A rebate or groove is also marked and cut into the boards to accommodate the sliding lid and base of the pencil case.

15:07

🛠 Assembling the Pencil Case Body

With the pieces marked and cut, the host proceeds to assemble the body of the pencil case. This involves using a mortising jig to create precise 45-degree angles on the ends of the pieces, ensuring they fit together snugly. The host emphasizes the importance of maintaining squareness and accuracy in the dimensions of all pieces to achieve a tight fit. The assembled box is then checked for squareness, and the corners are glued and clamped together to form the pencil case body.

20:11

🔩 Crafting the Base and Lid with Expansion in Mind

The host discusses the considerations for making the base and lid of the pencil case, particularly the need to allow for wood expansion and contraction. The decision is made to use hardwood for both, with the base being slightly shorter than the box's width to accommodate expansion. The host demonstrates how to cut and fit a rebate around the base to match the interior dimensions of the box. Attention is given to ensuring that the shoulder line does not impede wood expansion, and a decorative chamfer is considered for the edges.

25:13

🎨 Finishing the Pencil Case and Adding the Lid Pull

The final steps involve attaching the lid to the box, ensuring a snug fit that allows for wood expansion. The host cuts a piece from the front of the box to create an opening for the lid and then reattaches this piece to the lid as a pull handle, making the box appear seamless when closed. The piece is secured with glue and brad nails, which are then foiled back to ensure a smooth finish. The entire pencil case is then finished with a food-safe oil to enhance the natural beauty of the spotted beach wood, resulting in a simple yet elegant pencil case that showcases the craftsmanship of hand tools.

👏 Conclusion and Encouragement to Try the Project

In conclusion, the host reflects on the project, highlighting it as a simple hand tool woodworking project that viewers can practice and replicate. The project serves as a good opportunity to hone skills such as cutting rebates, making mortise and tenon joints, using a shooting board, and sawing techniques. The host encourages viewers to give the project a try, appreciating the satisfaction of creating something by hand. The video ends with a call for likes, subscriptions, and support for the channel, expressing gratitude to the community for their ongoing support.

Keywords

💡Pencil Case

A pencil case is a small container typically used for holding writing instruments such as pencils, pens, and erasers. In the context of the video, the pencil case serves as the central project around which the woodworking activities are organized. The creator aims to make a functional and attractive pencil case to hold his pencils and sketching tools, showcasing basic woodworking techniques.

💡Workshop

A workshop in this video refers to a space where the woodworking activities take place. It is where the creator gathers his tools and materials to construct the pencil case. The term is used to set the scene for the viewer, indicating the environment in which the project is being undertaken.

💡Tenon Saw

A tenon saw is a type of hand saw with a narrow blade and fine teeth, designed for cutting across the grain of wood. In the video, the creator uses a large tenon saw to split a wooden board, emphasizing the tool's utility in woodworking and his excitement to use a new tool gifted by his wife.

💡Spotted Beach

Spotted beach is a type of wood that the creator uses for the pencil case. It is characterized by its softness and unique grain patterns. The video mentions that the wood was sourced from a river, indicating its reclaimed nature and adding a sustainable aspect to the project.

💡Resawing

Resawing is the process of cutting a board into two or more thinner boards by sawing across its width. In the script, the creator demonstrates resawing a board using a tenon saw to create the necessary pieces for the pencil case, highlighting a fundamental woodworking skill.

💡Planing

Planing refers to the process of smoothing and flattening a wooden surface using a hand plane. The video script describes planing the split boards to achieve a uniform thickness and a smooth surface, which is essential for the proper assembly of the pencil case.

💡Marking Gauge

A marking gauge is a woodworking tool used for scribing lines parallel to the edge of a board. In the video, the marking gauge is used to mark the center of the board for resawing and to establish the dimensions for the pencil case components, illustrating its importance in accurate woodworking.

💡Rebate

A rebate (or dado) is a groove cut into the wood to receive another piece, typically running with the grain. The video describes cutting rebates to create a sliding fit for the lid and base of the pencil case, which is a key joinery technique for the project's construction.

💡Shooting Board

A shooting board is a type of woodworking guide used to square the edges of a board with precision. The script mentions using a shooting board to ensure the edges of the pencil case components are straight and square before assembly, which is crucial for a well-fitted joint.

💡Expansion

In woodworking, expansion refers to the natural tendency of wood to increase in size as it absorbs moisture. The video discusses the need to account for wood expansion in the design of the pencil case, particularly when fitting the base and lid, to prevent the box from cracking or splitting over time.

💡Finish

Finish, in the context of woodworking, refers to the final protective and decorative coating applied to the wood. The video concludes with the application of a food-safe finish to the pencil case, emphasizing the desire to maintain the natural beauty of the spotted beach wood and protect it from wear.

Highlights

Introduction to the project of making a basic pencil case using hand tools.

Reasons for choosing a pencil case project, including user requests and the creator's personal needs.

Utilization of a large tenon saw for splitting a board, showcasing a new tool in action.

Demonstration of finding the center of a board using a marking gauge.

Technique for splitting a board with a tenon saw and ensuring a straight cut.

Process of planing the boards to achieve a flat surface for the pencil case components.

Marking and cutting the sides and ends of the pencil case from the board.

Explanation of the difference between a rebate and a dado in woodworking.

Cutting rebates for the pencil case base and lid to ensure a sliding fit.

Assembling the pencil case box with attention to squareness and fit.

Discussion on wood expansion and the importance of allowing for it in the design.

Making the base of the pencil case with considerations for wood movement.

Creating a sliding lid for the pencil case with a hidden pull mechanism.

Gluing and clamping the lid piece to ensure a seamless appearance when closed.

Applying a food-safe finish to enhance the natural beauty of the wood.

Completion of the pencil case project showcasing the final product.

Reflection on the value of hand tool woodworking and its simplicity.

Transcripts

[Music]

what's happening everyone welcome back

to the workshop now in this video we're

going to make a nice

little pencil case now with a couple of

reasons for this number one a bunch of

you guys have messaged me and asked me

can i do a more basic woodworking

project

so the box is the basis for everything

we do in woodwork so we'll do a little

pencil case

second reason is i've been doing some

sketches lately around my day so i've

got myself a couple of sketch pads which

is always a good idea

to do especially if you're into making

stuff to sketch down a few ideas

and i wanted just a nice little pencil

case to keep all the pencils in on my

desk where i deal with my editing for my

videos it's just a nice place to sit

down

jot down a few ideas so i thought little

pencil case there i would

tell you the desk up a small bit and

last but not least

my wonderful wife for my 40th birthday

got me this

bad axe large tenon saw and i've been

dying

for looking for an excuse to use this so

i've just got to twitter today so i'm

going to put this

into use in this video so i'll give you

a look at this as this video progresses

you'll see it in action

so i have a piece of spotted beach here

that i planked up

about a year ago now this was taken from

the river so it's a nice piece

so i'm going to try and get the entire

pencil case from this board so i want to

use my tenon saw now this large tenon

saw to split this board and have to

resort

it's going to be completely uh 100 a

hand tool project

and we'll try and keep it nice and

simple because it's going to be a basic

enough woodworking project so without

further ado

let's turn this board into a pencil case

okay so our first

port of call then is to split this board

in half and this board is already

pre-dimensioned so it's always

it's already a square piece of stock

it's actually the board that i used i

believe

in my video on how to prepare stock by

hand so i have a full video on that if

you want to check it out

before you get started with this video

but like i say this is already

pre-dimensioned we want to split it in

half

so let's mark this with our marking

gauge all the way around now and we can

begin splitting this in half

okay let's find the center of this board

now i've just set my marking gauge

to roughly what i think is halfway it's

going to put a little line there

and come from the other side and see if

that matches up now that does actually

match up

exactly which is nice so it was a pretty

good guess so i know i'm center now if i

was in center

what i would do let's just make it not

centered just to show you so

pull it back a small bit mark a line

there

then mark from this side now you can see

there's a gap between those two lines

so i know my center point is actually in

the middle of the two of them now so i

can adjust adjust my marking gauge

to dead center of those two lines

we can mark again

and we are bang on so now we know we

have that set to center that's a nice

way to find the center of a board nice

and easy so we can scribe

this line all the way around from our

face

slide which i already have marked on

this board

so let's grab this line all the way

around and then we can split it

okay now that i have my line all the way

around i'm just going to

run my pencil in that mountain gauge

line just to make it a little bit more

visible

okay there we go we have a nice kind of

line all the way around that now

just to make it easier for sawing so

let's get on into that

okay we're trying we're going to try and

split this board in half using this

large tenon saw to do it now it's not

exactly the ideal saw for this but it's

pretty deep we have a nice pretty depth

to the spine so we should be able to do

it i'll have to come at it from both

sides but we're going to start at the

corner that's the best

place to start and try and join these

two lines

and once we have these two lines running

straight we can get a little bit deeper

into the board

and we can work our way down the board

then it's just a good way of getting a

nice straight cut so we want to follow

two lines at once so i'm gonna start in

the corner

just make sure that i follow

both these two lines as much as possible

and once i've established my cut and

following these two lines there the saw

should just keep following

the on down so when you get this one

nice and deep

so i was making sharp work it is so

we're pretty straight so that's good

let's continue

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okay now that i've reached the spoiling

the saw i'm going to straighten this up

in the voice and we're going to continue

on down this side

now we have two lines to keep our saw

nice and straight so let's continue on

okay so i'm just going to continue

around my board just joining up

my corners making sure that all my cuts

are lining up and then i can chop

straight down through the board

so hopefully it should be pretty good

now this board is pretty punky here

i'd say it's spotted beach so it's very

very soft in places

but the saw is tracking pretty true i

have to say it's an absolute pleasure to

use

so any uh discrepancy in this is not the

soul

it's definitely me

okay i'd say we are now true a little

bit deeper than that saw is capable of

going but i just really wanted to test

it out

but there we go now we have a bit of

planing what to do on that because i had

to come at it from multiple sides

and it's not the best i would say but uh

yeah it's definitely something i need to

practice as resawing boards with hand

saws

that's kind of a large tenon saw so you

really want a large hand saw for doing

this

but if you come out of corner to corner

and line up your cuts

you won't go too far wrong so now we

have two boards into plane these down

and thickness them up

so let's do that okay so i have

kind of two face sides already

established for when i pre-dimensioned

this board so now i need to do is

thickness these again so

because my saw cuts aren't great and

this board isn't

it needs a bit of work so set the

marking gauge to the lowest

point on the board i'm going to scroll

the line all the way around

and then we can work to that again we

don't have to be 100 accurate here

we just want to get it pretty good

because at the end of the day it's only

a pencil case but um

we'll get it as close as possible so i

do that with this board and i also do

that with this board and then we start

planing

guess i'm just taking this thing down to

my marking gauge line all around and

just checking for flat

the whole way down the board or almost

there again this doesn't have to be

exact just get it pretty close

say it's only a pencil case and that's

looking pretty good the whole way down

now

i'll dimension our flattened the other

board and

uh we jump back in and we get this

dimensioned up

okay so we have our two boards more or

less prepared so they're roughly to 10

millimeters

and so we're going to use them we

actually have a book match here as well

so we might try and incorporate that

into design but for now i just want to

get the ends of this board squared up so

i have a face

uh edge mount i'm going to put that

against my fence and just get

the ends squared up on the shooting

board we always want to keep our face

edge against the bench so we don't want

to

do this and then do this it's always the

face edge

that goes against the fence so we want

to flip it over you can see have a nice

big gap there so we want to get that

down

there you go it's a nice square side on

that board and the same with this one so

face the edge against our fence and

again you can see have a nice big gap

here so

do this side

side is pretty good i've actually got

quite a punky bit of wood here so that's

very

spongy this is pulled from the river

okay now we have our two boards ready to

go so we're gonna try and get all our

components of both of these boards

so let's mark this up all right let's

get our boards

marked out now so we're gonna try and

get the best out of this we have two

knots

that i'm gonna try and maybe avoid these

knots if i can

i once got two checks down here so it's

going to be nice and small it's just

going to be a nice small handy little

pencil case

it's just going to hold a few pencils a

pencil sharpener and an eraser or rubber

and we're going to try and get the sides

and the two ends

out of one side of this board and we're

going to get the top and the bottom out

of it or the other half so

i've kind of decided on 60 millimeters

deep

which is about just under two and a half

inches so with my marking gauge i'm just

gonna mark that

so that's gonna be a slide on an end and

i'm gonna do the same on this one so we

get

a side and an end out of this

okay so we want to cut this now and

square this back up it's going to be

nice and small nice and handy and then

we want to put a

monitor the edges at ease so let's get

on and do that

okay you're going to use my big tenon

saw for this as well because i really

like using it and

we're going to just cut let's say a

couple of millimeters away from this

liner depending on how

good you are with the saw the closer you

can get to this line i'm not the

greatest with the saw in the world i

definitely practice

so i'm going to stay back we have plenty

of material to space spare so

i'm going to stay back about three

millimeters from that line and we can

work to that line on our shooting board

which is the beauty of the shooting

board so

we can give ourselves a little bit of

leeway here we don't have to be too

exact

and we can just run on down beside our

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line

just like that now we've got ourselves

plenty of spare here that we can walk

this back down with the shooting board

so let's do that

okay so we're going to walk back to this

line on our shooting board

be nice and fast

there we go nice straight edge do the

same with this one

okay here we go now we want to dimension

these two

exactly so we can put the two of them

together

just like that make sure they're against

the fence

just take a nice pass down to two with

ease

just one or two strokes that'll do and

now they are identical

happy days okay so now we have our two

pieces dimensioned up these are

essentially the sides and the ends

of our pencil case now i've just marked

a line on the inside top and bottom so i

know that that is the inside top and

bottom and we want to put a rebate now

in this a rebate or a rabbit

i think a dado goes across the grain am

i right in saying that and a rabbit or

rebate goes the length of the grain

let me know in the comments i could be

getting that absolutely wrong but we're

going to slide in our base and we also

want a sliding lid in this

so we're going to cut a six mil or a

quarter inch

uh rebate or rabbit into this nail so

i'm just going to measure five

millimeters up from the end so that's

just under a quarter of an inch

i'm just going to scrub with my marking

gauge

top and bottom and we cut the rebates in

this

before we actually cut our boards

and separate them into our slides and

our ends

so there we go

so nice and small lightweight pencil

case that's we're aiming

for here and all with hand tilts okay

let's cut the rebates

okay here we go sometimes the only thing

you can do is whip together a quick

jig so let's get the rest of this done

so

okay guys so we have our rebates in top

and bottom and like i said these are our

sides our ends combined so we just want

to cut the ends off this now i think i

want to make the width of this pencil

case

roughly 80 millimeters so it's going to

mark

that here that should allow plenty of

length inside in it

for the pencils and say a sharpener and

a

eraser or whatever so we make it 80 ml

in length

so we want to square that across there

and we'll do the same on this one now

i've already taken these pieces to the

shooting board and squared up these ends

so i know the ends

are good and square so let's mark this

one at

80 millimeters again

square that off now we'll chop the ends

off

and we'll moisture all our corners and

we get this fitting together

nice and square okay let's get our ends

cut off i just want to stay inside my

line again i'll be squaring up these on

the

shooting board so

just want to cut the ends off right now

it's a side and an end we'll keep them

together

and this is a side and an end

lovely okay guys so i've just

set up my box roughly to where it's

going to go and i've just numbered all

the corners so i can see what goes with

where and it looks

like the grain is continuous the whole

way around the box which is just a nice

little touch

so nice and simple so now we want to

monitor all these corners i'm going to

do that with our motor jig

let's do that okay so we're set up with

our monitor jig now i have full videos

on making all these jigs i have a

woodworking jigs video so you want to

check that out you'll see how i made all

this it's just a simple box at a 45

degree angle so it holds our piece at 45

degrees to our plane

we have a fence that we can put to so we

keep it square and we can just put

little mortars

in the end of our pieces

so nice and easy

what i'm going to do is just establish a

moisture in the end of each piece and

then we make sure that the dimensions

are exact

on all pieces

okay guys now that i have nice little

moistures on all my corners also make

sure my components are dimensioned

the exact same so i'm just going to line

up the two ends

of my monitors absolutely perfectly on

the top keep that pressed against the

fence

and then we'll just bring

the two edges down here perfectly in

line with each other

there we go that's the two of those

now for our ends

and they're more or less perfect already

so we don't want to take off them now we

should be good to go to assemble our box

so let's have a look okay guys there's

our box

all looking nice our motors are nice and

tight and everything is good and square

so actually works nicely nice and simple

concept now that we have our box

assembled we can measure the depth

of our rabbit either side and we know

the dimension that we need to make the

bottom of our box nail so let's get on

and prepare our bottom piece and then we

can make the lid

okay guys so now that our box is more

assembled we can get the dimensions like

i said for our base and our leaves now

with a

decision to make here whether or not to

make the base out of howard wood or use

a manufactured timber products such as

plywood mdf

or some sort of hard board now if we

make it out of hard wood

the same as the size of the box we have

to allow for the expansion

of this wood so timber is very very

stable

up and down so up and down the length of

the tree but it expands and contracts

across the grain so it's like a series

of straws you imagine a bundle of straws

all tied together

they're very very hard to compress but

you can expand them and pull them across

so as moisture gets into wood and you

have seasonal

uh moisture variations within your house

this will expand and contract

so if we're going to put this into that

rebate we have a little gap

either side of a couple of millimeters

to allow for the expansion and crack

contraction it is that's a nice kind of

delicate little box and that will blow

itself apart if we don't allow any

expansion room so

i think what we will do is actually put

a hardwood base in it make it nice and

pretty and we'll use a hardwood for the

top as well so we're gonna fill it for

expansion so let's get on and do that

okay so i have our base marked out here

now now the internal

dimensions of my box is 65 millimeters

plus i have a four

mil rebate either so it's that's an

extra eight mil so that would take me up

to 73 millimeters now i've measured this

at 70 so it's going to be three

millimeters short so we'll have a

millimeter and a half either side

which gives a total let's say three

meter millimeters of expansion hopefully

that should be enough

and we can put a rebate all around the

edge of this and slot it in we don't

have to worry about

up and down like i say a longer length

wood is very stable

it's not stable along its way it's going

to expand this way it's not going to

expand

much this way so we can make the length

the exact length it needs to be

but we need to make the site a couple of

mil short so that we allow room for

expansion

so i get on and cut this out now just

put a rebate all around it it's exactly

the same as

putting the rebate on the inside so i

won't bore you guys with that i get on

do that and when that's done i get back

we'll assemble the box and i'll show you

what we mean

okay guys there's our bottom piece made

so just cut it out squared it up and

just put a rebate all around it now it's

like i say it's in three millimeters

short then the actual width of a box

including the rebate so it has some room

to expand now

also something to remember is you need

to leave your shoulder line back from

the edge as well because if the

shoulder line butts up against this edge

then

this part of the timber can't expand

either because the shoulder is going to

catch the edger box

and that will push our box apart so you

need to leave a gap on your shoulder the

whole way around but as long as you keep

that consistent the whole way around

that can actually be just a little

decorative feature and if you want you

can put a little chamfer

on this as well just for another little

decorative feature but i'm going to

leave it as a nice crisp

square line all the way around so again

if you're going to use hardwood for the

bottom and not plywood or something like

that

allow for expansion otherwise your box

could end up in pieces okay

let's get on now and start getting this

assembled now we need to cut off

the front uh rabbit off the front of our

box because our lid is going to slide in

through there let's do that

okay guys our lid and our base is in

place now

make the lid the exact same way as you

make the base you just make the

rebate on the soil a little bit deeper

so it slides easier in the box

now what we want to do here is obviously

we need to cut this guy off so that we

can slide it in and out but we want to

maintain

the look of the box so we want to glue

the piece we cut off to our lid so we

can use that for pulling

it out and when the box is closed it

should look exactly like that

and you can't actually see how to open

it everything

working out well so i'm going to cut

this now and then i'm going to re-glue

it to the lid so let's get on and do

that

okay i'm going to cut this top of the

box off now i'm going to use the edge of

the rebate as a guide

to make sure we get a nice clean

straight cut

just like that and then we want to take

this piece and glue it onto our lid

so that it looks like the box is closed

captioning not

floating available and that rebate so

just some glue on the motors

and we get this clamped up

i just want to take care that we don't

get too much glue on that rebate if we

get a small bit of glue in there it's

not the end of the world

it'll still have a room to move and

expand

we just don't want to make sure we don't

catch it all the way along it's wheat

okay guys we are all glued up we let

that set up

we are perfect corner to corner so if

you don't want to just check that you're

square just make sure you're exact

corner to corner which i am so that's

habit so we can leave that now for a

little while

let that set up and when the glue sets

up we come back and we fit the lid and

get a finish on this

so our box is all glued up and our lid

is

working nicely so again nice and loose

we have to allow for that lid to expand

as well as the base and the base is in

there and it's not fixed in place

and like i said it's only a nice nice

little pencil case so gluing up those

motor joints will be fine

uh we have to worry about that's not

going to take much abuse but now we want

to sort the lid so we want to get this

piece back

on so that that matches perfectly up

there and looks like it's all part of

the lid and you can't actually see how

the box opens so let's get this glued on

okay guys so we want to get our lid in

just like that and we want to get this

end piece on

so that when everything is closed up it

looks like it's all part of the box and

we can't actually see how it opens just

a nice little touch

so we want to fix that to this we have a

little bit of leeway a little bit of

scope so what i'm actually going to try

and do

is glue this but i'm going to use some

brad nails as well that won't be seen

i don't have screws that are small

enough or delicate enough

for this so what i'm actually gonna do

is with like a two mil bit

just drill a couple of holes

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very carefully

just like that be very delicate here now

because this is very very thin and small

material so

get a little bit of glue we'll get those

holes to line up we're going to hammer

through the brad nails

and then we'll cut them flush and foil

them back

so they're not actually in the way so

get our glue in there

get that to sit in

take our broad nail

lovely way to snip them flush

make sure we don't break through i'll

foil them back

and that should hold our lid on so you

won't even see them on their foil back

so we should be pretty good to go there

and when that glue sets up it'll really

bond that piece anyway so

there we go that's how we want to fix

that together

lovely just foil down flush nice and

smooth

i should be good to go okay guys our box

is just about done the lid is fitting

nicely sliding in and out nice and easy

just like that plenty of room for

expansion like i say

in the base in the lid not to do now

just get a little bit of finish on it so

i'm gonna just throw on some of this

food safe finish because it's a nice

clear odorless finish

and i kind of want to keep the natural

look at this box so let's get this on

that spotted beach is absolutely lovely

in there as you can see

all right guys so there we go the finish

is all on and that's all the beach looks

absolutely fantastic with

just a natural oil finish no color in it

just the natural colors of the wood

darkens up lovely with the yellows and

the browns

golden colors and a bit of spotting on

through it looks absolutely fantastic so

it's a really nice little pretty pencil

case but you know we

get my pens and pencils into it i can

leave this on my desk

as an extra little bit of inspiration uh

to draw and just to imagine some noise

thing so it's always nice to have

you know nice little things to look at

inside in the house as well

so there you go guys a pencil case

completely made from hand tools

all right guys so there we go a nice

little hand tool project all completed a

nice simple one you guys asked what i do

when i simple hand your project

there you go there are some good things

to practice a nap between your rebates

and your monitors and getting everything

square

practicing with your shooting board

getting some sawing done

a bit of cross cutting a bit of ripping

and it's all in there so again it's a

nice little project nice and simple not

too complicated

just to practice some hand tools and

it's an absolute pleasure just to come

out

and to make something completely with

hand tools so hope you've enjoyed it

guys hopefully you got something out of

it

hopefully it inspires you to go make

something and even go have a go at this

yourself

with your own hand tools in your

workshop so if you like that guys give

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