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Woodware Designs -- Child's Bench Toy Box -- Freebie

Child's Bench Toy Box

-- Freebie

This Child's Bench Toy Box features a large toy box with a bench back and arm rests. It also has casters,

an internal tray, and a secret compartment underneath. It can be build from materials readily available

from your local home fix-up store or mail order house.

The box design is take from simple New England plank boxes but uses the new edge glued board

product to replace the no longer available wide wooden planks. It does include the traditional course

dovetail joints which can be make with only a few hand tools.

The back and arm rests features pre-made spindles and can be removed if the box must be shipped.

These are held on with carriage bolts.

The patterns for this box serve very well as a first lesson in wood carving.

You can buy all the materials for this box at your local home store or mail order the spindles and piano

hinge from:.

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l Download the Detailed Drawings

This free design includes six detailed sketches. You can click on the link below to download sample

drawings drawings in .PDF format. These construction notes cover all the box varieties and can be

printed out with your Web browser.

1. Child's Box/Bench Drawings in .pdf

2. A free Acrobat Reader (.87 meg) is available from:

3. Or, if these don't work or you need a new name and flower pattern, simply send in this little

freebie form .

l box Construction

You can make this box by:

1. Downloading the drawings and this text.

2. Studying this information and locating the materials.

3. Purchasing all the materials locally or by e-mail order.

4. Having the panels and plywood cut at the store.

5. Hand cut the dovetail joints

6. Hand cut and drilling the small pieces.

7. Gluing up parts.

8. Assembling the box.

9. Decorate the box.

10. Finishing all pieces

l Discussion of Sketches

After you download the sketches, these notes will help you understand them more completely.

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1. Child's Bench Toy Box

The front view shows the box with its dovetail joints and the back with its spindles. Note the

casters and the decorations which can be simply carved or stenciled.

The side view shows the arm rest (also with spindles) the recessed bottom for the casters, the end

of the internal tray, and the curve the lid makes when opened.

2. Child's Bench Toy Box, Wide Boards, Sketch #2

This sketch is shows the wide factory glued up boards used for the front, back, top, and ends.

These come in standard sizes and the design is adjusted to use them. The top has a 1-by-6 at the

back.

3. Child's Bench Toy Box, Back and Arms, Sketch #3

This sketch shows the wooden pieces that make up the back and arm rests. These are all made

from standard size lumber. The spindles are mail order. Most of the parts are 1-by-2 stock that

can be cut with a simple hand saw and miter box. The back top can top can be cut with a jig saw

or coping saw.

4. Child's Bench Toy Box; Bottom, Tray, and Secret , Sketch #4

These are the pieces of wood and plywood needed for the bottom, tray, and secret compartment.

The major plywood cuts can be made at the store. The bottom is simply 1/2 inch plywood with

four 4 inch square corner blocks to provide extra thickness for the casters.

The internal tray is long and narrow. It can slide front to back and hold small things that would

otherwise be lost at the bottom of the box. It is made from 1/4 inch plywood and 1-by-2 frame.

The secret compartment is a wide but very thin compartment that fits between the casters

underneath the box. It is held up by magnet latches and hinges. It can be released with the fingers

or a pencil. Its thickness of just over an inch limits its use to small things such as a diary, or

sketch book, or such. A secret place can be very important to a child.

5. Child's Bench Toy Box, Carving, Full Size , Sketch #5

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This is a full scale out line for a flower that can be either carved using a single gouge (see below)

or cut-out and stenciled on.

6. Child's Bench Toy Box; Dove Tail Gage, Sketch #6

This is a full size pattern for a dovetail gage to help you make the course dovetails used for the

corners of the box (details below).

l Materials

This box uses four commercial edge-glued pine panels, plywood, and dimensioned pine lumber.

1. Wood

Edge Glued Panels:

m 4 -- Pine Edge-glued panel, 18 by .75 by 47.5 inches, $17.00 each -- $68.00

With only slight modification of the drawings, this box can be made slightly smaller out

of 16 by 48 inch panels.

Plywood:

m 1 -- Fir, .50 in., A/C, 2x4 feet, $8.00 each -- $8.00

m 2 -- Fir, .25 inch, A/C, 2x4 feet, $6.00 each -- $12.00

Dimensioned Lumber:

m 8 ft -- Pine, 1-by-6, -- $5.00

m 66 ft -- Pine, 1-by-2, $, $.39/ft -- $ 26.00

m 10 ft -- Pine, 1-by-1, .75 by .75 inch molding, $.37/ft -- $ 3.70

m 36 inches -- Dowel 5/16 inch -- $1.25

( .5 by .75 stock is acceptable, or cut these blocks from scrap lumber)

Spindles:

m 11 -- Baby Crib Spindle Oak (H) 10 inch -- $2.30 each -- $25.30

m 10 -- Baby Crib Spindle Oak (H) 7.5 inch -- $1.70 each -- $17.00

Wood Subtotal: $166.25

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2. Hardware

m 2 -- Fixed Casters, 2 inch -- $ 5.00

2 -- Swivel Casters, 2 inch -- $ 5.50

m 1 -- Piano Hinge(H), 48 inch, antiqued -- $9.00

m 3 -- Hinges(H), 1-1/2 inch -- $4.00

m 4 -- Bumpers(H), 3/4 inch, nail -- $1.50

m 2 -- Magnet latches (H)-- $3.00

100 -- Screw, flat head, #8 1 inch -- $ 3.20

m 16 -- Screw, Pan head, #12 1 inch -- $ 1.50

m 4 -- Carriage Bolt, 5/16 inch, 2.5 inches long -- $ 1.00

m 4 -- Carriage Bolt, 5/16 inch, 3.0 inches long -- $ 1.00

m 4 -- Carriage Bolt, 5/16 inch, 3.5 inches long -- $ 1.00

12 -- Flat Washers, 5/16 -- $ .50

m 12 -- Nuts with plastic inserts, 5/16 --- $1.50

m 1 box -- Restoration Steel cut nails 1.5 Inch (H) -- $2.50

m 1 box -- #3 Finishing Nails, 1-1/4 inch --- $1.50

m 4 -- Wooden screw cover plugs (H) -- $ 1.50

8 oz. -- Woodworker's Glue -- $ 3.80

m 1 package -- Wooden Wedges -- $ 3.00

Hardware Subtotal: $ 50.00

3. Finish:

m 1 qt. -- Paint, oil based -- $ 7.00

1 qt. -- Shellack -- $ 5.00

m 1 pt. -- Shellack thinner -- $ 4.00

m 1 qt. -- Polyurethane varnish, satin finish -- $12.00

m misc. -- Decoration paint (see below) -- $ 10.00

Finish Subtotal: $ 38.00

4. Omissions and Contingencies (~15%)

( Tax, sand paper, etc.) $20.75

5. Estimate Total Cost $275.00

This is only an estimate (made in the May 2000). The price may vary in your area.

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