A view of the exterior construction of my tool box

 

My tool box was inspired by one of Roy Underhill's articles that appeared a number of years ago in Popular Woodworking Magazine. Up to the time I built this tool box I had been carring my tools around in an old canvas army cargo pack. It worked, looked like a pregnant sow, and wasn't elegant. My big tool box was way too big to take to fairs. Roy's tool box project fit the bill. The only problem was that constructing the box as drawn in the article required cutting something like 44 dovetails to construct the box. With the Common Ground Country Fair only weeks away, I needed something quicker to make. I built my version of Underhill's toolbox using mortised and tenoned frames with raised panels. The assembled panals were then rabbeted and glued together at the corners.