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Build a Storage Chest - dimensional.iron.storage PEP BB

BB dimensional lumber woodworking - iron badge
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This is a badge bit (BB) that is part of the PEP curriculum.  Completing this BB is part of getting the iron badge in Dimensional Lumber Woodworking.

For this BB, you will build a storage chest!

Like this but following the requirements:


To complete this BB, the minimum requirements are:
  - hinged lid
  - hinge is all wood - knuckle joint
  - at least 24 inches wide, 14 inches high and 20 inches deep
  - no metal
  - no glue

To document your completion of the BB, provide proof of the following as pics or video (less than two minutes):
- the wood you're starting with
- the construction partially underway
- the finished project
- closeup of hinges and joinery
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to anyone interested I have piles of rough cut cedar for building chests.
 
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I found several sites detailing how to make knuckle hinges, but they all use a center metal pin. This BB specifically states no metal. Can someone post a link to an appropriate all-wood knuckle hinge? Thanks!
 
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I'd just do a knuckle with a larger hole for the pin and then use straight grained extra hard wood for the pin.  So in this image, the grey (metal) pin would be wood instead:

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Ahhh! This pep thing is really teaching me a lot about how to think outside the (conventional) box. Which I believe is the goal? Now to learn about what woods have straight super hard grain and how to find them... (wanders off to explore some more)
 
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Alexa Ayers wrote:Ahhh! This pep thing is really teaching me a lot about how to think outside the (conventional) box. Which I believe is the goal? Now to learn about what woods have straight super hard grain and how to find them... (wanders off to explore some more)


I'm going to wander off a little bit more... It is possible to make one chest with NO WOOD also... It is possible make it out of bamboo!
 
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I think a bamboo chest would be a good fit for the Pep oddball category. This is the dimensional woodworking category so I don't think it would be approved for this BB.

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Bamboo might make a good hinge pin though...  Not a whole 1/2" round section but a thick piece of bamboo split down and whittled to size.

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I've never seen bamboo in Montana, but that doesn't mean it wouldn't grow here. Speedy wood source maybe? But I've also heard it can be invasive. I dunno, I haven't learned (yet?) how to grow stuff.

I haven't had time to look too deeply yet, but maybe one of you already knows of an equivalent to EWG for wood types? Fsc.org appears to be more about certification processes than a user guide to graded products.
 
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