Making a dovetail box... like a machinist!

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Shout out to Rowan @noengineerhere for finally overflowing my shame capacity of the Box of Shame with your fanmail. The box said, “Yum!” Now, to make room for some more of my future foibles… Let’s make a bigger box!
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Special Delivery
1:18 Loose Premise
2:28 Let’s Get Physical
5:44 Woodn’t It Be Nice
7:49 **Precisely 15 Degrees
9:33 Wrong Brain Mode
11:09 Exactly Incorrect
14:17 I’ll Tell You When You’re Older
16:00 Gratuitous Milling and Drilling
17:25 What Come’s Around
18:15 Screw It
19:53 Wewd
21:51 Fire
22:35 More Sticky
26:07 Wait For it…
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Editing: Final Cut Pro X
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[@InheritanceMachining]

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[@Culpride]

That sponsorship segment was ... well, brilliant

[@thatoneguy8371]

Now where’s mine

[@lourias]

You took a support from a turn -of-the-ceutury Collapsible Wardrobe!! Why?

[@aserta]

27:44 It's Canadian!

[@sebbes333]

26:13 Please do NOT use a *rotary sander* on wood, especially not on the places that are supposed to look nice. You should use a *belt sander* or something that *sands in a linear fashion,* and then you sand along the grains. When you use a rotary sander, it leaves circle scratches in the surface, that are always visible, even at 1000+ grit paper, but if you use some "linear sander" the scratches hides along the wood grains & can't be seen, especially when the grit is finer than the wood fiber. but if you sand across (or rotary) those scratches is always visible.

[@NoEngineerHere]

Don't worry buddy, I measure my wood to the thou as well. You gotta take what you can get.

[@Mika10]

How have you commented a day ago🤨🤨

[@NoEngineerHere]

@@Mika10 first

[@vilian9185]

@@NoEngineerHere LOL

[@ferky123]

​@@Mika10 there's a reason why he's poor.

[@scagmo_au]

Lads, this crossover is everything I didn't know I needed ❤

[@whitec21]

Look, just because I know exactly how a rotary broach works doesn't mean it's not wizardry.

[@adrianblack7966]

Exactly, it just means we're wizards.

[@-pickle-4726]

I wanna be a wizard.

[@helplmchoking]

It's like complicated code, or flight, or electricity. I know it's real, I know how it works, and it's all still magic

[@ssberserker1488]

I kinda feel the same way about some thread mills. I get how it works and everything now, but sometimes I still can't help but think "Black magic fuckery..."

[@TheKids-yz7ox]

all hail the wizard

[@usualatoms4868]

I admire your optimism in making the box so small.

[@J.C...]

🤣👌

[@camz8755]

My thoughts exactly

[@BetweenTheBorders]

Yet perfectly sized to contain the old box. Not the contents, the box itself.

[@Phonophobia]

The DIN is getting into him... The next one is gonna house this one perfectly and so on :D

[@marsrover6121]

In about a year hopefully he won't be making a crate of shame

[@89sirmonk]

I hate glue. It gets everywhere. Proceeds to apply glue like an unsupervised toddler pouring maple syrup on his pancakes.

[@oliverer3]

Certainly gives context for the previous statement. xD

[@InheritanceMachining]

👶

[@ebco756]

Wear gloves!!

[@Tawnos_]

@@InheritanceMachining cheap brush, dip pot, or double chamber glue dispensers helped me solve a lot of my issues with drips and glue. The amount of glue you applied would be like brazing together two 1/8" thickness, 1" ID steel tubes with 5 brass brazing rods. Inevitably it will overflow. If you hate woodworking but want to level up your gluing easily, just pour the glue into an intermediate vessel and use a cheap flux brush to apply it to both surfaces rather than pouring an eighth inch puddle along the edge :D

[@89sirmonk]

@InheritanceMachining meant in good fun. I do enjoy your videos and some of your tool concepts. Thinking outside the box is the key to a craftsman. Even if it ends up in the box. A very nice box.

[@Serenity_Dee]

The upside down letter/backwards speech gag just made my morning.

[@Franklin_Johanessan]

I thought my brain stopped working 😅

[@rhetorical1488]

we are here for the quality of the content and commitment to the bit😊

[@DamienDarkside]

Everything being upside down in Australia is one of my favourite jokes, along with dropbears.

[@laserbeam1620]

Very clever!!

[@Doomsday_Report]

@@DamienDarkside Dropbears aren't a joke, they got my aunt just last year, we're still looking for some of the pieces.

[@dieselrugg]

"he's a big wood guy...he also likes woodworking" LMAO!

[@RENO_K]

U forgot the "unlike me"

[@scottevans1392]

"It lives in the barn because its intimidated by my surface grinder". I laughed so hard!

[@sirduckington5641]

24:14 "Gonna build a window just to yeet you out of" God damn that made me crack up

[@tooldog212]

shit had me laughing so hard

[@dan3a]

The whole mental breakdown part was hilarious, but wish he doesn't get any more of these 😂

[@AriManPad8gi]

"instead of becoming a better machinist, i'll make a bigger box" LMAO priceless

[@nickthorp1624]

That needs to go on a tee shirt :D

[@alexperry5264]

"But hey, in the world of hobby woodworking, one man's barn scraps are another man's barn scraps." So true.

[@SharkyMoto]

i miss the drawing board, bring it back. CAD is awesome, for the very reason you demonstrated, but i LOVED how you would design the stuff on paper

[@thechadwick22]

Drafting table is what I'm sure you're talking about and 2nd from me!

[@dirtfarmer7472]

Yes I agree with you I like the drawing & figuring things out 1st. Anybody can do CAD, where’s the fun in that

[@InheritanceMachining]

It's not gone forever! Just some projects require the faster CAD

[@UlrichWulf]

@@InheritanceMachining Be that as it may, letting us look over your shoulder while you explained the drawing, informed the whole following video. After that, we could understand, what was going on every step of the way. Here we see just a bunch of beautiful parts we have no idea how they're going to fit together one fine day. Even doing it with CAD would be a lot better than not doing it at all.

[@dirtfarmer7472]

@@InheritanceMachining I like the idea of cad, cardboard assisted design, that’s the kind I would do

[@Serenity_Dee]

The state of those woodworking power tools makes my woodworking soul hurt.

[@InheritanceMachining]

Trust me, it hurts mine too. But it would hurt more if my machine tools sat outside haha

[@Serenity_Dee]

@@InheritanceMachining I mean, fair, your grandfather's big machines are definitely far more precious than the woodworking tools you showed here. It's just that my first crafting love is woodworking, and I wish deeply that I had a woodshop with such tools.

[@gabrielarrhenius6252]

@@InheritanceMachining time to build a cargo container for them and your occasional woodworking

[@Volern]

I love the subtle nods to show how you designed the box to not only perfectly fit the old box of shame but to also snugly fit in the rim of the table it was placed on. Very nice

[@InheritanceMachining]

The only 2 real requirements honestly haha

[@lourias]

I noticed that perfect fit, also

[@kiviknuuti1538]

"I'm not a woodworking guy" --> proceeds to have a lot of special woodworking equipment

[@InheritanceMachining]

doesn't mean I like it 😆

[@Vision-xf8gl]

On the fly design by a machinist, when a sneeze or a brainfart makes the logical and even 15 degrees or 1" into 14.25 degrees or 0.9527" Love it.

[@ubertalldude]

The cameo in NotAnEngineer's last video cracked me up. Great work!

[@InheritanceMachining]

😂 Thanks!

[@lourias]

Yes, when I saw NotAnEngineer's nod to The Box of Shame on his video, I chuckled, a whole lot. I knew where it was going.

[@clapanse]

For future glue-requiring projects, you can get 30 minute set time epoxy as well and it makes assembly a lot less stressful, as well as actually being slightly stronger once it fully sets.

[@InheritanceMachining]

where were you last week? 😂

[@evilotis01]

"the age-old 'she'll be right'" as another Australian, i can confirm that this is 100% true

[@JTCF]

The box of shame almost ended up being an item of shame too, how ironic and poetic.

[@shikutoai]

Something I find immensely wonderful about every one of your videos is that every intro with the splash music is customized with B Roll from the video in question. It's a special attention to detail that I love.

[@InheritanceMachining]

thanks for noticing 😊

[@99seaweed]

I'm sorry I'm going to need an explanation? The B-roll of which video?

[@shikutoai]

@@99seaweed So, for example, in this particular video, from ~ 0:51-1:20 all of the footage is B Roll that was filmed during the creation of this video. If you go watch the video for the knurling device, the same section of the video - the “opener” - uses B Roll from the creation of that tool, and so on.

[@shikutoai]

Each video IM produces has the “intro” with B Roll from the production of that video itself

[@99seaweed]

@@shikutoaiOooohhhh. Thank you.

[@sonicsphincter6]

Craig being a big wood guy was a quality joke my dude.

[@InheritanceMachining]

😎

[@tdg911]

That has got to be one of the prettiest boxes I think I have ever seen. Your work and craftsmanship is truly exceptional.

[@InheritanceMachining]

thank you very much! It's certainly the nicest box i've ever made!

[@gogogadgetearl]

I love how the dark and light metals look vaguely like teeth.

[@nitroboibg]

that little bolt snapping at the last possible moment has to be the greatest comedic timing on this whole project haha

[@Horus9339]

A finer chest has never been seen, the box wasn't bad either. Thank you IM, once again a really well produced video. Have a great weekend guys.

[@InheritanceMachining]

That just got an audible laugh from me 😆 Thank you and you as well!

[@RCake]

Thank you so much for sharing the genesis of this wonderful marvel of a box 🤩🤩 Not sure how many people have already said it before, PLEASE protect your skin when using epoxy. Nitrile gloves are an absolute must. You can remove / inactivate any accidental smears with vinegar. Epoxy skin exposure will lead to contact allergies, and you do not want those.

[@dythe7858]

The box of shame is no longer hidden and is now watching you (with a superb view) Be careful now that you have a bigger box, you might be tempted to feed it bigger things 😂

[@InheritanceMachining]

Don't you dare say that! 😂

[@owngamesgamer4030]

the noises you made durning the box assembly especaly "sticky" were so cute

[@robster7787]

I CANNOT believe I just now discovered your channel only because of a small “Box of Shame” gag from “Not an Engineer”. But to be fair, I’ve just recently discovered his channel like a couple days ago. As a fellow engineer, you’ve got a new subscriber

[@JTCF]

I did not expect we would get such a collab! Wonderfully executed overarching cross-channel narrative!

[@vandemonian5412]

The irony of making a box-of-shame to be proud of, is not lost on me.

[@M00NM0NEY]

No one expected that Brilliant ad 😂

[@InheritanceMachining]

Not even me...

[@KnugLidi]

@@InheritanceMachining Ad or abs ?

[@TheThirdPrice]

I've never been so excited to see a box with googly eyes

[@marcshapiro7317]

you should melt them into a mystery alloy and make a trophy from it

[@TBJK07Jeep]

Brave man..I could never go shirtless. About 16 years ago, I made my daughters dresser. I dovetailed all the drawers for that dresser. If I would do it again, I would make it out of a better species of wood than poplar

[@Buschkraft_Boy]

THAT is the most beautiful l box i have EVER seen! Most likely will ever see. The amount of care you took to attend every little detail is insane. And it really paid off.

[@Hexagonaldonut]

That box really is gorgeous! A lot of effort, certainly, but I'd say the Box of Shame deserved it.

[@InheritanceMachining]

Thank you!

[@callmespaghet]

Now that u have a new box, can i have the old one? :D

[@AriasThirdOfHisName]

I'm here for the sanding a raw log on a vice and quizzically looking at it to figure out why it's not working.

[@brandondoucette]

“That was probably the clamp I threw across the shop” 😂😂

[@panatornchiaranai3103]

It's always a great day when Inheritance Machining releases a new video.😁

[@skeery2605]

Your pain in wood glue is the same pain I have for coolant. That stuff reeks and won't leave your pores

[@oliverer3]

Potential life hack, unscented shaving cream will pull most smells out of your pores. Haven't tried it for coolant specifically but it works for other things with similar unpleasant smells that get stuck to you.

[@JTheDragonKing]

the fact the you made the OG Box of Shame fit in the new one and made it fit on the shelf is just * mwah * chefs kiss

[@NV..V]

Never over-torque solid brass screws. Another amazing video. Thank you.

[@InheritanceMachining]

a lesson you only learn once 😂 thanks!

[@jonathanolson2263]

My tool box has what I call the scrap drawer, and some days the scrap drawer runneth over

[@firstnamelastname-th2ju]

that is a beautiful box

[@InheritanceMachining]

Thank you

[@MrCsheller]

As a wood elf, seeing you handle a chisel nearly gave me an aneurism. -Not to mention the state of that poor table saw!

[@InheritanceMachining]

wait until i tell you that wasn't a chisel 😂

[@Kurgosh1]

That is honestly lovely. Combining the two crafts makes for such a beautiful effect.

[@learnitalready]

I learn an incredible amount from your videos! Keep up the fine work!

[@wellox8856]

It came out looking amazing!

[@InheritanceMachining]

Thank you!

[@alexsnow3319]

"I'm not great at woodworking." Also you: I keep the wood 20 miles away from me....

[@christophermcdonough1353]

Love, love, love the honest ! When working in wood, there are days questioning everything I'm doing, especially a new project! But there was no greater joy than to figure out what went wrong, understanding it and having the project come out amazing!!

[@b1air77]

As a woodworker, I'm stoked to see you working with a material I can wrap my head around! Love the @notanengineer cameo, saw you on his channel too ;)

[@InheritanceMachining]

I'm glad you can because it still boggles my mind 😂 thanks!

[@rocksocar]

The montage of you going vaguely insane at the glue is so relatable for anyone putting 110% into a project and nearing the end. Thank you for sharing

[@hfletcher39]

That first open and close was so satisfying. Love your work!

[@binyominmartin3308]

I knew this was coming saw not an engineers video

[@aethertech]

Can anyone donate to the box of shame ? I have a few things....

[@InheritanceMachining]

i think that's a can of worms I don't want to open haha

[@aethertech]

@@InheritanceMachining lol. two weeks later, you'll be building the Dumpster of Shame.

[@Smona]

The perfection in every little detail is awesome! The fact that the old box of shame fits perfectly into a corner and the new one fits onto that shelf are things I didn't see coming

[@uncledansworkshop4776]

For the woodworking tools, try a wax like Butcher's Boston Polish or even Johnson paste wax on the cast iron after sanding off the rust. It will greatly slow the rusting and won't contaminate the wood. Things slide nicely too. My first wood shop was in the damp basement of an old tobacco barn, and this even kept things nice in there for the most part.

[@vinny142]

When the other channel said the parts belonged in the box of shame, my first thought was "I hope he's going to ship those parts to that other guy and have him put them in the box of shame". And he did. And I was happy. All hail the box of shame.

[@pallgubrandsson417]

Loved the authentic noises of the assembly process

[@NicholasOrr]

i love how te actual box dimensions are specific to fit the previous box of shame and also fit exactly in that spot on the shelf

[@killsode4760]

That is genuinely an incredibly fitted box. I love it!

[@dennisbloch717]

From an avid woodworker and want-to-be machinist, that is awesome! Great job.

[@InheritanceMachining]

thank you!

[@graemecook8131]

As a kid, that is indeed a "fire" box. Glad you didn't "yeet" it out a window. Bonus points for the black oxide, the surface treatment nerd in me very much appreciated the touch!!

[@matthewpeterson3329]

Always satisfying. Great job!

[@scl1341]

That is the most stunning and over-engineered box I've ever seen. I love it. You truly are a talented fella

[@elliotcm]

Thank you so much for making me feel a lot better about the state of my table saw

[@suzukipilot4773]

That box looks phenomenal! Great work, Brandon!

[@caleblagrange7164]

This is my favourite build on this channel. It's more interesting to watch a video where the creator is learning things as they go.

[@speedchopwtf]

what a satisfying sound it makes when it closes!

[@bboydrummer1]

Awesome! The sound of the box closing is so satisfying.

[@jack002tuber]

When my box of shame got too small I started to make a bigger one, then messed it up and had to make an even bigger one

[@NightsReign]

Allow me to say how glad I am you succeeded on the new box of shame, first attempt. (Are we still going with 'box of shame', or do we need a bit more ostentatiousness? The Telltale Trunk? Crate of Lament?) Anyway, if you'd had to scrap the box, I wasn't sure we could handle (psychologically) the inception of the box of boxes of shame of shame paradox. Admittedly, I had forgotten about the original box in my calculations, and we still survived, mostly! Congrats 🎉

[@caveman31750]

Awesome build video! I appreciate the detail you put into your work.

[@lawabidingcitizen5153]

That came out beautifully! Love the humour as well!

[@JohnChuprun]

I felt that "Ohhh!" when you closed the box and it was perfectly flush and so sound. Awesome idea and job with those dovetails, that is truly epic.

[@christophermcdonough1353]

Beautiful box, well dome, love the project, love the bleeps!

[@1remski1]

Beautiful design and execution. I enjoy your final products, as they are always an eye treat, not just slapped together with tight tolerances..

[@tonyn3123]

Nice outcome. I missed the original plan to see how you planned to construct the box. Thanks I have to add that Boxes of Shame are very similar to shops. We always build the perfect size only to find it is deceptively small in quick order.

[@rogue6]

I literally laughed out loud when the screw broke, followed by the 'oh no!' and the rapid montage of making a new one.

[@lonewulf0328]

The box is breathtaking. I love the inlaid dovetails.

[@jimcollins9316]

Absolutely beautiful!

[@gregrice1354]

I really love the use of brass and steel embedded in wood or running flush with wood. Your Box of Shame is beautiful, distinguished craftsmanship. Nobody would ever guess its purpose. Thanks. Oh, your pro-planning, and elimination of all errors during creation of parts and assembly is wonderful.

[@GomezEMT]

A wonderfully beautiful piece.

[@Firebrrat31]

That is the coolest box I have ever seen!

[@Lwimmermastermetalart]

Yet another brilliant project. Your attention to detail is beyond amazing. The best KZbin Channel there is 🤙🏻🤙🏻.

[@chrism9191]

That top down view applying the finish would be a great intro with inheritance machining appearing as you apply it! Great video, thank you!

[@txstang84]

that clean crisp *TAP!* the first time you shut the lid was pure satisfaction-work of art, even if it is to house "happy accidents"

[@t0mn8r35]

Doesn't matter how painful it was to make. We all enjoyed the process and the end result is definitely worth it!

[@Peakapew]

"One man's barn scraps are another man's barn scraps" might be my new favorite quote.

[@CoolAsFreya]

Making several measurement errors while making the new box of shame is so on point!

[@punkboyblue]

The fact you made it to fit the old box of shame perfectly is beyond immaculate

[@Yakjzak]

Man these videos sure gives me the biggest smile i've ever had sometimes, i love it since the beginning

[@reemtbuck2054]

I'm Just a machinist's apprentice but seeing you working inspires me to be creative and gives me ideas on what to make next and although i'm going through a rough time seeing you Work hast something therapeutic to me and i really appreciate that so keep Up the good Work

[@McKildafor]

One more awesome build. Thank you.

[@michaelmolter8828]

When making boxes, you can wrap green felt around a piece of cardboard, and then push the cardboard into the top of the box for a nice felt lining.

[@henrikp.1625]

Amazing work!

[@kdahm1]

The bolt breaking. I loved it.