Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I present to you The Tale Of The Cedar Planter Box.
Solid cedar, mortise and tenon joinery, with a nice bead detail on the slats. Garden hose sold separately, pine straw not included.
this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2024
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My goodness that is smooth details. Any close ups on the joinery cuts before assembly? Sorry for delayed comments just jumping into this woodworking instance?
Technically no, but I've got some shots of The Bigger One I Built Right After That One which is effectively identical.
That's a stack of the rails, with a tenon on each end and the groove that accepts...
The slats were made by gluing up a few 1x6s into a 6x6 an then milling and resawing them. Compared to planing a 1x6 down to 3/8" thick, that was a much more efficient use of stock, an upshot of which is some of the slats are 2 ply. I did several batches of those and they came out to various widths, for a bit of rustic flair I distributed them somewhat randomly, plus very thin ones would go at the beginning and end so it looks "centered." Except for the very right-most of every side, each slat has a simple bead detail on its right-hand edge, just to fancy things up a bit.
This shot is about the best I have to show the mortises on the legs, along with the groove that spans them for the slats to poke into.
The ends were glued up as assemblies, and then a set of rails glued into place and the slats slid into place...
ratchet strapped together...
Until ridiculously long.