How to Make a Wooden Tackle Box for Fishing

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hey what’s up guys welcome back I’m

going to make a tackle box in this

video I had a tackle box but it got

caught up in some high tide and all

rusted out and got pretty gross so I

took a bunch of slabs of Oak and resaw

them playing them down and got them all

ready and I’m going to make it out of

solid oak and some scrap uh bed Birch

Firwood

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so I Mill everything up to about a

little bit thicker than an eigh of an

inch and then I taped them together with

some masking tape and just using my

cross cut sled I made some Cuts about

halfway through the height of each and

then I’m going to put it together kind

of like a half laap joint and make those

make all the trays like that

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next I had some strips about a third of

an inch thick and I’m gluing those up to

make a panel for the

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lid so I don’t know what happened to the

footage but I can’t find it and I don’t

think it ever recorded um but the top

lid is pretty simple it’s just a picture

frame uh with 45 degree miters and then

splines cut into them and I’m using the

thin 8 in Baltic birch plywood as the

spinee and then I used a rabbiting bit

in the router table to rabbit out a

Groove On The Inside Edge and then I fit

in the panel that I just glued up and

that makes up the lid

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here I’m making the top tray for The

Tackle Box and I just tip my blade to 45

and then using my sled to make all the

the side pieces and that goes together

pretty much like a picture frame too

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here I’m just cutting a Groove for the

bottom panel and I’m using a rabbiting

bit in my rter table

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once I got the bottom panel in and the

bottom tray I worked on the top tray and

the little arms that make it move up and

down when the lid is open the process

that I used was really overly

complicated and pretty stupid on my part

I should have screwed in the the arms to

the sides of the Box first

and then to the tray because the screws

are facing inside on the inside of the

box and outside on the trays and it was

really hard for me to get my hand and a

screwdriver in between the tray and the

box when the top screws were in so it

was it was a nightmare but just I guess

learned from my mistakes

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so for all the hardware I’m using

galvanized screws just because this

tackle box is probably going to be near

salt water and I don’t want any of it

rusting and for the hinges I’m simply

just using screws it was probably the

easiest way I just pre-drilled a hole

through the side pieces of the wood into

the lid and then I widen the hole and

the side pieces so so the screw would

just engage into the lid and turn around

the hole in the side pieces and that

would act as the hinge

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for the handles I just cut a round

profile on the band saw and then I used

round bit in my router table to cut the

finger holes and then I just sanded it

all up ran it over the edges and then

glued them on

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next day after it was dry I took all the

screws off sand it up to 220 and got it

all ready to be finished

I didn’t mention it before but I did

pre-and all the parts for the trays just

because it would be a real pain to get

sandpaper in all the little tiny

spots for the finish I needed something

that was really easy to apply but yet

was super protective so I went with

spray polyurethane and it comes in a can

which is great because it’s easy to get

in all the compartments but it’s also

really protective since this tackle box

is going to be holding fishing equipment

and being around fish I didn’t want that

smell to seep into the pores and make

all the wood pretty nasty so I put I

think about eight coats I kind of lost

count I sanded in between with 400 grit

to the best I could and made sure it was

really nice and smooth and everything

was sealed all the pores were

sealed next I just loaded it up and got

it ready for the next fishing

trip I’ll probably add some magnets and

then a latch to the lid just in case it

falls over all the hooks and everything

won’t fall

out overall I’m super pumped about how

it came out I think it looks really cool

all the joints and everything came

together really cleanly I like how the

top tray moves up and down um and I hope

you guys liked it

too that’s it guys I hope you liked it

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