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Part 3: Cutting out the box, starting with a single drawer jewelry box by following the steps below.
1. You should have your band saw ready to cut by placing a ¼” band saw blade on your band saw and checking to see that everything is properly set-up, check your manual for instructions. Safety is important and you should be wearing non fog safety goggles to protect your eyes and a dust collecter attached to your band-saw.
2. Making sure your pattern is traced on the front of the box with the sanded bottom down, set your guide to ½” and slice off the back side of the box. Sand both halves of the box, then set aside the back for later.
3. Change the band-saw blade to a 5/16” skip tooth (4 teeth per inch). Following the pattern on the front of your box, carefully cut the drawer out, the drawer only, following your pattern closely. This blade is for scroll cutting and can snap easily, if you apply to much press on the blade around corners, its gets bound up or if the blade get snagged on a knot in the wood, when this happens, stop the machine and what for the blade to completely stop. Back out of the cut a little bit and re-start the band-saw again, then continue cutting out the drawer. After cutting your drawer out, you will need to sand it, before going on to the next step.
4. Next, you will need to glue the back of your box, back on and set aside to dry. Be sure that the wood grain matches up before you glue the back on. It will take an hour or two for the glue to set up before you can scrape the excess glue from the inside. We use clamps to hold the back on while they dry.
5. Next, you will need to set your guide to 5/8″ and cut the front off your drawer and then set your guide to 3/8″ and cut the back off your drawer. All parts should be sanded evenly, then set the front, back and center of your drawers aside, until the back of your box has dried completely. Join me next week for the continuing series, part 4 cutting out the inside of the drawer and cutting out the box.
