Marshall Woodworking

You can probably see around the place we do everything from complex down to quite basic and today we're just going to take a look at a very basic project but it's making a carcass and a carcass is the framework of making any type of box whether that's a fitted kitchen or whether it's a jewellery box. The techniques are the same but they're similar. I'm going to show you how to make it, it's a straightforward operation. Okay the piece of kit you can see in front of you is called a Kreg jig but equally known as a pocket hole jig. So what we do is we clamp a piece of wood in the side and we make a drill hole in there. The whole box is going to be held together by six screws. It's a carcass of a box that's going to be finished in another material but if you were going to veneer it and make it really fancy, really decorative you just want a carcass. These holes would ultimately be filled in with wood filler and the whole thing would be veneered to make it look Now obviously being a box you're going to need a lid. Take a bucket of plates which in this case we put a bead of glue around that, put a bottom onto it, put a bead of glue on the top, put a top onto it and we've got then the rudiments of the box. This is a project in a day with somebody who's not done woodwork before. The woodshop at Phoenix House is a magical place where people come. You would think to make things out of wood but you don't. Making things out of wood is the by-product of what we do and as you can see around you there's a lot of fine things that people have made. What we do is we build teams, we build confidence and then eventually we build stuff out of wood but it's the working together, working together as a team, as a crew. People get back into the habit of being involved, the creating stuff helps their mental well being and it's a progress maker.