woodworking project: how to make a wooden box : easy illustration with wooden furniture

Wooden boxes are a popular project for beginning woodworkers, and making one will teach you many basic techniques that you can apply to other projects. You can construct your box to be simple and elegant, utilitarian, or highly stylized and decorated. However you choose to design your box, it's easiest to start out with either a hinged or sliding lid so you can get some practice before moving onto more advanced techniques.