Making crates – production line method

I decided to do some more crafting this lunchtime. I had sawed lines into a pile of cubes so I brought them in to get them sorted.

I found that the index cards are an ideal thickness as well as having a pile of lines on them. This meant that I would only have to measure the inner widths.

The first time I did this, I used a single length of card and then when it ran out I cut some more.

Each cube uses twelve lengths of card… I can get 6 x 20mm out of each piece of index card. Luckily I can also get 5 lengths of 25mm card.

I did a whole card to start with. I cut the strips out and folded each.

Once they were all folded I measured the required length of each cube face and cut these out.

It was then a simple case of adding them to the cubes with PVA. I like this glue to affix the card to the wood as it soaks into the card making it easier to bond them together.

Although seeming to be tedious, to begin with it actually meant that I did the four cubes in not much more time than I did two.

I am still to add cross pieces to all of the faces, however, part of me wonders whether I should bother.