The Lid ... putting together

dust frame ... the two short parts

the dust frame ... glued and nailed

the hinges have to be bend

glued already ... and wooden nails knocked in at the corners

A raised panel ... so grooves again to plane

The Lid

Frame & Panel construction ... a day's work *phew*

chisel-work ...

fits ... after rasping a little around

the frame ... not glued (panel to fit in)

corner-detail

Beginning to Look like a chest :-)

Bottom-boarding

a little gap for wood-movement ... nails angled - better hold

After sharpening my tongue- & groove-plane blades ... let's go:

Tongue-planing

Dust-seal ... finished

perfect fit is crucial

The skirt ... part 2

Wooden nails ... knocked throug, will be cut and planed

Part 1 of the dust-seal - already glued and nailed

Finishing the skirt

The skirt

To strengthen the base and to provide a surrounding of the floor-boards a skirt is installed.
The corners are dovetailed, but tails & pins vice versa ... so this would be an almost undestructable construction.
To make it really, really strong, wooden nails (4 through the long sides and 3 through the short sides) hold the skirt in place even when the glue should fail (in 200 years?). 4 smaller woodnails hold the pins and so the whole thing would hold together even without any glue :-)

The skirt 2&2 parts already glued together

see the headless nails which help postitioning during gluing

Gluing the first half