I was worried about making the interior dividers for this project. I don't have much experience working with hardboard, so I didn't know how it would take sawing and chiseling. And the cuts had to be precise of course, not just to look good but to work properly, so each drawer can be made identical and fit.
I cut the seven boards to length, and shot the ends with a block plane. No problems here! This worked like a charm, even though the block plane is overdue for a sharpening.
Being still somewhat young and limber, I took my material and all my layout tools to the living room floor to mark the dividers for cutting the eggcrate. Careful measuring ensures that each opening will be identical.
I gang cut the dividers, first drilling an 8mm hole straight through the end of each cut, and then sawing to the hole. This went smoothly.
I then dressed each slot at the workbench with a pair of chisels.
The finished dividers! The article did not saw whether to glue these parts or not. The fit is snug enough that I don't think I will. Anyway, the "shelf" elements will get screwed through the sides of the crate, and I reckon that that will be sufficient for holding everything in place.
The project so far...
Despite my careful measuring, there seems to be a slight discrepency from opening to opening. I was worried about this. The drawer bottoms will all have to get trimmed, either at the shooting board or on the jigsaw table again. Since I'm off painting the nightstand in the basement bike storage room, I figured I would try painting the edges of these dividers too. The edges probably won't take paint that well, but we shall see. If it looks terrible, I'll just slip them into the case the other way around.
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