Stackable Wooden Storage Crates

Helloooo & Happy New Year Everybody!

Take a look in this instructable, where you will see how I built some simple, modern, stackable wooden crates, made of Pinewood, that I created for the favors of my niece’s baptism.

I built them in such a way that each one can be placed inside the other, in order to take up less space and be easier to move.

Because these lumbers come in 3 meters length, I started to cut them in smaller pieces.

Then I put a stop block and cut all the pieces precisely in the dimensions I need them to be. Firstly at the right length and then at the right width. That in this case is 5cm.

Every wooden crate has 4 legs, 20cm long and 5cm wide, and each of them consists of 2 pieces of wood. This means that I have to cut 40 pieces in total.

In order for every leg be the same on every side, I measured the thickness of the wood and then I subtracted it from the total width of a piece.

Then I started to assemble all the pieces together.

Marked them, drilled them and screwed them.

Then I rounded all the edges with the router.

I sanded them, puttied all the holes and then sanded them again for a smoother feeling.

Then I repeated the same process for the side pieces of the wooden crates.

Nailed them, marked them, drilled them, screwed them, sanded them, rounded all the edges, puttied all the holes and then sanded them again for a smoother feeling.