Building crates !, Really, I should schedule an appointment with a therapist. Anyway, after the first two, like every other new project, they started going faster... Built about 12 today, along with 3 Mahogany Desks. The desks are 30" high (5/8"), 84 inches long (1 3/4"), and 36 inches deep (3/4")
Fortunately had a Ah hah ! moment this morning and realized cutting some good quality plywood for the crate box blanks would take care of simulating the individual board detail on 4 of the 5 sides, then I would only have to laminate new wood strips on the 5th side, and brace the corners/ends. That actually worked out really well. Managed to cut strips of wood on the table saw that were pretty consistently 0.036" thick (around 2 inches in 1/4" scale) but thin enough to do the job.
In the last photo one of the crates isn't done, (sitting next to the desks), so you can see what it looks like before all the bracing is applied on the ends and corners.
