Wood Scraps Box

With some of the wood scraps I have from the literature sorter, I decided to make a wooden box. I have no idea why, I just wanted to. When I was walking around the store I saw some cork board squares and I decided I would cover the outside of said box with cork and line the inside with fabric and use it as a storage box for my desk (as my desk doesn't contain any drawers).

 The edges of the wood are really thin (1/4th of an inch) so I bought some square dowel rods to add to the edges. This way there would be more for the wood glue to stick to. I don't have any "real" clamps but I have a bunch of binder clips, so I used those to hold the rods in place as a glued. The glue only needed 30 minutes, but it recommends 24 hours so I glued and let them all set for a day.

 I had to measure a lot and had to "put it together" a few times just to make sure I was gluing everything on the right edge and in the right space (the squares weren't really squares as two sides were slightly longer than the other two).

The hardest part was gluing the fabric on the inside (if I do this again, I will sew and just set it in there). As you can see it's wrinkled. It was really hard to glue the inside of a box and lay the fabric down (and repositioning it) before the glue dried. SOOO it's a tad but messy looking on the inside, but who will look in there anyway?

I just glued the cork on the outside and trimmed an excess off with a knife.

Spray glue goes everywhere, pro-tip: use nail polish remover to get it off stuff (of course only on surfaces that won't be damaged by nail polish remover). I had to soak the binder clips in a diluted solution so that I could use them on paper in the future.