Box!

I made a box tonight! As of, about 12 hours ago, it was a board, and now it is gluing up. It is not a pretty box, nor does it serve any particular purpose in mind save education, but it is my box and it is the first object I have ever done dovetails in (as opposed to practicing them on scrap wood). Naturally, there are many important lessons I have learned today. But the most important one is this:

• Just because it came off a power panel saw does not mean that it is square.
( Other lessons )

I have no idea what I am going to do with my new box when it finishes gluing. It is not the prettiest thing in the world and I am tempted to burn it, but perhaps I can find something less pyromaniacal to do with it, like store my waterstones in it or something. I do like working with poplar, though; pity it's so ugly.