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Guide to making a turned box with a drawer for mounting the
What follows is a pictorial guide to making a turned coffee box with pull out drawer, it is not an
instruction sheet and depending on your skill and equipment you may have other ways to complete
a similar project but we hope this will be a good starting point.
We started with rough sawn sapele – planed would have been better to complete the project
however our planer/thicknesser didn't want to play nicely, or actually at all!
The tools we used are as follows:
45mm forstner bit
3.5mm HSS drill bit
8.5mm HSS drill bit (for fitting the brass knob)
Hacksaw (for fitting the brass knob)
Jacobs chuck
Pillar/bench drill
Wood lathe
Lathe chuck/dovetail jaws
Bandsaw
Belt sander
We started with 4 square sections (ours were 170mm
120mm
2
), 2 of them were glued together to make the drawer sections
Next we cut around the outer pencil mark on
the bandsaw:
Prokraft PKR CGA Coffee Grinder Mill Kit
You will see that we have marked out with a compass 2 circles
which will be the inner and outer walls of the drawer.
We have then drawn 2 parallel lines from the widest points of the
circles to the front of the drawer – these come out at a slight angle
to make sure we can pull the drawer out cleanly.
If you pointed them inwards you would make a nice drawer that
would not pull out!
2
and 30mm thick, we would not use less than
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Summary of Contents for PROKRAFT PKR CGA Coffee Grinder Mill Kit
- Page 1 Guide to making a turned box with a drawer for mounting the Prokraft PKR CGA Coffee Grinder Mill Kit What follows is a pictorial guide to making a turned coffee box with pull out drawer, it is not an instruction sheet and depending on your skill and equipment you may have other ways to complete a similar project but we hope this will be a good starting point.
- Page 2 We then take our other 2 square pieces of timber and use them to sandwich the draw cut-out to make a very rough box. Glue and clamp the parts and when dried you should have something that resembles the following: We had to sand the drawer a little to get it to slide back into the box –...
- Page 3 When we have got it roughly round we mount a jacobs chuck on the tailstock and drill another 45mm hole approx 10mm deep so we can turn the box around when we have finished the sides and bottom: When we have done this we then use a 3.5mm drill bit to drill just into the bottom of the drawer section.
- Page 4 To do this you can use several methods, you could simply drill the wood out, or use a router but here we are going to re-mount on the lathe and hollow out with turning tools. The point marked on the bottom of the drawer gives us the centre point for drilling another 45mm hole 10mm deep (it can be shallower depending on your bravery!) Having drilled out we can then re-mount on the lathe and hollow out: Take extra care with the drawer - as it is not round it will be out of balance on the lathe –...
- Page 5 You then have a completed box with drawer and a quality ceramic grinder that is sure to impress: After all that you probably deserve a cup of coffee! Prokraft ® Copyright 2020. www.prokraft.co.uk...