Redwood Planter Box

[cgmojoco]

Used OF2200 (rout grooves for panels), Kapex (overkill but it cuts rough lumber too!), RO150 (actually lots of sanding here---a little hand planing to to make things fit together best) and Domino 500 (Mitered corners and then reinforced with screws) to build this planter box in ~1 day.

No finish, no bottom.
Plastic liner sides.

Expect to last 10 years...check back here to see if it made it!

Christopher

 

[honeydoman]

Nice and cute picture also

 

[leakyroof]

Used OF2200 (rout grooves for panels), Kapex (overkill but it cuts rough lumber too!), RO150 (actually lots of sanding here---a little hand planing to to make things fit together best) and Domino 500 (Mitered corners and then reinforced with screws) to build this planter box in ~1 day.

No finish, no bottom.
Plastic liner sides.

Expect to last 10 years...check back here to see if it made it!

Christopher

. Very nice Christopher. What does Redwood cost where you live?
I don't see it advertised or talked about here in Chicago.
We seem to always have lots of Cedar though.

 

[cgmojoco]

~$100 for all that redwood---and somewhat ashamed to say I purchased it from the BORG!

It wasn't really boardfeet type lumber purchase ((WxDxH)/144) but more like "TIMBER" purchasing

Fenceslats, a couple a 2x's and 1 4x.

Wow, it was GREEEN "sopping" wet  (Incidentally this doesn't work so well with dust extraction)

My awesome aunt was in town for the weekend, and she wanted to build a planter box right then and there with me (I love that about her), and lumber yard wasn't open on weekend...so...BORG wood... boooooo

I'm betting my money from the looks (and the place I bought it from) that this is outter growth wood (new wood) won't last long!

Cedar is a great wood.  White or red cedar works good too and lighter than Redwood I think.

If I had more time (and $) , woulda used perhaps IPE, maybe white oak.

Best bet to last forever is plywood with fiberglass coating!

Christopher

 

[leakyroof]

~$100 for all that redwood---and somewhat ashamed to say I purchased it from the BORG!

It wasn't really boardfeet type lumber purchase ((WxDxH)/144) but more like "TIMBER" purchasing

Fenceslats, a couple a 2x's and 1 4x.

Wow, it was GREEEN "sopping" wet  (Incidentally this doesn't work so well with dust extraction)

My awesome aunt was in town for the weekend, and she wanted to build a planter box right then and there with me (I love that about her), and lumber yard wasn't open on weekend...so...BORG wood... boooooo

I'm betting my money from the looks (and the place I bought it from) that this is outter growth wood (new wood) won't last long!

Cedar is a great wood.  White or red cedar works good too and lighter than Redwood I think.

If I had more time (and $) , woulda used perhaps IPE, maybe white oak.

Best bet to last forever is plywood with fiberglass coating!

Christopher

  Thanks for the info. I've never seen Redwood advertised for either Home Depot or Lowes near me, but then again, I'm not looking for it either. The Redwood that was so common when I was growing up is much different now, as you said, early growth or lots of non-heartwood being sold as 'decent' stuff... [blink]

 

[Slappy]

  Thanks for the info. I've never seen Redwood advertised for either Home Depot or Lowes near me, but then again, I'm not looking for it either. The Redwood that was so common when I was growing up is much different now, as you said, early growth or lots of non-heartwood being sold as 'decent' stuff... [blink]

all that old growth redwood is gone  [crying]

 

[sgy]

Took you a day to build that?  Jeez.  Took me all summer to build something similar--see picture[attachimg=#].  Of course, my routine is to make a cut, drink a beer or two, then start over the next day.

Steve

 

[cgmojoco]

Yours looks much nicer!

There is a fella near me that builds a lot of boxes and ships them internationally:
http://www.greenplanterbox.com/

He would scoff if I showed mine to him and told him it took a day!
He cranks them out with a pretty limited garage shop, a few old very small table saws for dadoing the grooves...cheap blades he says to keep costs down.
He has dust collection, sold him a small unit I had picked up when a local store closed...
He was asking me about joinery...brainstorming on ways to build the boxes so they could be assembled at customers homes.  I showed him the domino but as it turns out his typical customers (women) don't typically have large clamps laying around.  We moved on to screws pretty fast...

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