![]() You can get ¼" walnut plywood to match the rest of the dice tray, but I decided to use some scrap birch plywood I already had on hand. While the glue was drying, I turned my attention to the bottom of the tray. Clean up any squeeze out once the glue turns a little rubbery, so it peels off easily. Roll up the tape to pull all the pieces together to form the box frame!įor additional clamping pressure, I used my Bessey strap clamp to hold all the pieces together at a perfect 90 degree angle. Apply wood glue to both sides of each corner, and the ends. Place each piece onto the tape with the ends touching, keeping the same corners together as the dry fit. This trick for gluing up mitered boxes works great for those fiddly smaller pieces! Dry fit the frame, and roll out a long strip of wide painter's tape with the sticky side facing up. Mark the exact thickness of the divider piece onto the longer pieces, then use a crosscut sled or miter gauge to cut the groove. The longer side pieces also need a dado cut on the inside of the frame for the divider that separates the rolling area from the dice storage section. You might be left with a little ridge in between the two passes, but that's easy to sand down or clean up with a chisel later. ![]() Test the fit of the ¼" plywood, and move the fence accordingly to widen the groove so the plywood sits flush. Then move the fence so that the blade will cut a shallow groove along the corner. Set the table saw blade height to half the thickness of the board. ![]() You can use a router or a dado stack for this, but I was being lazy and just took multiple passes with the regular table saw blade instead. The bottom of the dice tray is recessed into the sides with rabbets, so you won't see the plywood edges. Test fit the pieces to check that all the corners are lining up correctly before moving on to the next step. Make sure the opposing sides are exactly the same length. You can avoid all this work just by buying a ½" thick 1x3 board instead! □Ĭut the ends of each side piece at a 45 degree angle at the miter saw. Then I used the jointer and thickness planer to flatten all the surfaces and get them to the desired ½" thickness. After cutting it to the correct height at the table saw, I resawed the board into two thinner pieces at the band saw. I used a leftover chunk of 1 ¼" thick walnut for this project, so first I had to mill the pieces down to their final size. The woodworking plans for this dice tray includes two different versions, so you can choose based on your skill level! The beginner version is super easy to make, just with a miter box and countersink screws! The more advanced method will be shown in the tutorial below.Ĭlick here or on the box below to get the plans for this project! Cut the side pieces How to make a dice tray Download the woodworking plans
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