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(05-12-2020, 02:10 PM)fredtoast Wrote: I have never built a nice "finished" piece like this.  I don't know a lot about carpentry, but I have made "rough" doghouses, storage bins, shelf units, and stuff like that.

So I have a question.

Why did you put the bolts into the thin cedar side pieces instead of the thicker cyprus rails at the top and bottom?  Are there dowels or something in the bigger pieces?

The tops of the cedar is glued to the cyprus rails so it's not going anywhere. The screws are 2 inch deck screws and the corner pieces are a bit under 1 1/2 inch so there's a tad over 1/2" into the side of the cedar and friction does the rest.  I've never had one pop loose yet. Now if the cedar were like treated lumber like fence boards or such junk it would shrink and probably leave gaps, but this is all kiln dried or at minimum air dried.  I do have a butload of rough dawn cedar planks that are about 2" thick and around 12 feet long, but about half of it has insect damage. I've been cutting it up to salvage what I can from it.  A lot of the boxes I made are either all cedar with cedar corners and rails or a mix of cedar and cyprus.  
By the way..none of it is very thin. Everything is at least over 3/4 inch. Those rails also have a dado groove down the center of each one so the sides have nowhere to go if they did wiggle loose..
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