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Okay, now we're talking! The shooting board definitely counts (believe me, I would have used one by now if it didn't!). Did you use a hammer/mallet with your chisel? Any marking tools like squares, knives, pencils etc? Any glue or rags to clean up glue or brushes to apply glue? Any clamps? They...

I decided to put off thinking about resawing more material for the box lid and just get on with the dovetailing. I started by marking out the shoulder lines with the plane blade and the combination square. The plane blade doesn't make a great marking knife (unsurprisingly) although it cuts...

It would count, but I wouldn't give it an especially good score. According to rule 5, power tools count as 5 tools, so you're starting with 5. I would argue that if you use additional jigs beyond the fence, then they're extra tools, so the mitre gauge or whatever else you use for cross-cutting...

Why oh why oh why did I choose a cross-cut saw? † That was really hard work, but all four pieces are resawn down to a more respectable thickness now: The offcuts from the smaller pieces were used as planing stops: I didn't leave much excess material when sawing (my sawing is getting more...

Much more sensible than what I'm doing!

I left the board yesterday with one face planed and not much else done. The first job this morning was to plane the edges. I started by cutting a notch into the end of the off-cut: ... and then chopping it off the end of the board and clamping it to the bench. It could then be used to...

(Yes, I know it's a joke). Interesting story: one of my friends was driving his smart car down the M5 past Bristol and went into the back of a Transit van. The transit van had to be towed away but the smart car was driveable! I've no idea what he managed to hit on the transit to damage it...

I started by shortening the board to a more sensible (and rather arbitrary) length so I had something a bit more manageable to work with: Then I drew a straight-ish line (my combination square isn't that long, so I just accepted straight-ish) and sawed off the bark: It was a bit wobbly...

Yes, that's a fair point. The reason I put that rule in is I wanted to be sure that planks were prepared as part of the challenge. If you had four pieces of wood lying around that happened to be about the right size for the four sides of a box, then it seemed a bit like cheating to me.

There's a heck of lot of power tools and clamps used in that (plus it uses plywood, which is off-limits), so I'm not sure it's going to help me much. Thanks for the link though.

This is the plank (of rough-sawn Ash) I'm going to use (mainly because it's the first one that came to hand and wasn't already allocated for something else): and this is my initial set of tools: I suspect I'll need more in due course, but this seemed like a sensible set to begin with...

After spending all of last year working on the tool chest (and using pretty much every tool in my armoury), I thought I'd choose something a lot quicker for my next project. However, I'm keen to stretch myself a bit and, while thinking about options I came up with what struck me as an...

Thank you When I took it away last time I put a seat belt around it and that seemed to work okay (I tried tugging sharply on the box and the seat belt lock engaged). Hopefully that will be sufficient. Thanks John

I'll look forward to seeing photos when you make it

Thanks for all the kind comments. Honestly, probably more than I need! I still feel like a woodworking beginner (only started in 2020 and initially it was power tool stuff - this is the first big fully-hand-tool project I've done). Tools that I took in June (when I did a trial run and made...

It'll never go on a plane: I wouldn't trust baggage handlers to treat it nicely. It goes on the back seat of my car & travels by road & ferry. It's got carrying handles (rounded rectangle shaped cut-outs) in the side: you can see one of them in the first picture. It is heavy, but manageable...

The first CAD model I drew (18 months ago :eek:) had lots of 20 mm holes for clamping directly to the top and back: The more I thought about it though (this project had an awful lot of make-it-up-as-you-go-along!), it just seemed unnecessary. With the intermediate slats on the back removed...

Thanks Paul Not a very good reason: just seemed like a good idea at the time. I wanted something fairly strong that could be moved up and down easily and also made flush with the top (the original plan had been to use countersunk screws to hold it in place so it would have been flush on the...

Oh, and just to prove it works, I made these two boxes while I was away in France back in June. There were still lots of things I hadn't finished making yet (including the shooting board, the plane tote, the vice & most of the brass bits), but there was enough there to allow me to prove the...

Today I declared finished a project that I've been working on since January: a travel tool chest & workbench. The primary reason I did this project was to practice hand tool woodwork without having to worry too much about aesthetics (which are not my forte). Less significantly, I also wanted...