Fixing a screw-up...
Denis Ch�nard, Orl�ans, Ont.
>Working on a box, the plan is to through dovetail the corners. This morning I set up to rout a groove for the box bottom. I got distracted by house "things", then went at it. I had setup the router table last night and it was ready to go.
My brain wasn't, however...
I needed to make stopped grooves, and because of the distractions I forgot that part... So I routed straight across @#@($#*%&#@($@!&*@@(#@!!!
Now I'm up the proverbial creek without a paddle... I don't have any stock left of that kind to start over, of course...
I see my options as:
- make the box 1/2" less tall, that will get rid of the groove, and will teach me to pay more attention next time. But the box might end up too small for its intended use...
- miter the corners instead of dovetailing them. That would be the easy way out, but the dovetails were part of the design, so it's the last resort solution to me, and I don't want to have visible splines, another complication...
- make small "feet" that would attach to the corners and hide the defect. Dovetails haven't been cut yet, I did just the layout, but I can work around that. Problem is that I can't picture a foot that would look good on that otherwise fairly plain box, a prism of about 10" wide by 6" high by 7" deep. No special ornamentation other than a veneered top.
Can someone show me pictures of boxes with feet, or suggest something to salvage the box?
Any help very welcome!
TIA,
DC
Leaving for the next day or so, so I won't be able to check responses until tomorrow night or even Sunday...