Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I present to you The Tale Of The Cedar Planter Box.

Solid cedar, mortise and tenon joinery, with a nice bead detail on the slats. Garden hose sold separately, pine straw not included.

  • humble_boatsman
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    19 hours ago

    My goodness that is smooth details. Any close ups on the joinery cuts before assembly? Sorry for delayed comments just jumping into this woodworking instance?

    • Captain AggravatedOP
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      18 hours ago

      Technically no, but I’ve got some shots of The Bigger One I Built Right After That One which is effectively identical.

      That’s a stack of the rails, with a tenon on each end and the groove that accepts…

      The slats were made by gluing up a few 1x6s into a 6x6 an then milling and resawing them. Compared to planing a 1x6 down to 3/8" thick, that was a much more efficient use of stock, an upshot of which is some of the slats are 2 ply. I did several batches of those and they came out to various widths, for a bit of rustic flair I distributed them somewhat randomly, plus very thin ones would go at the beginning and end so it looks “centered.” Except for the very right-most of every side, each slat has a simple bead detail on its right-hand edge, just to fancy things up a bit.

      This shot is about the best I have to show the mortises on the legs, along with the groove that spans them for the slats to poke into.

      The ends were glued up as assemblies, and then a set of rails glued into place and the slats slid into place…

      ratchet strapped together…

      Until ridiculously long.