This afternoon, I’ve been making lids. Specifically, I’ve been making lids for a couple of old recycling boxes to store kindling and small firewood. The boxes lost their original lids sometime ago but are other wise fairly sound so, with a cover too keep the rain out, they should do the job.

The first one was a bit more involved. I selected a number of planks from my scrapwood collection, cut a rabbet on both edges and joined them together. That should keep it fairly watertight although it was a lot of effort made harder by some unevenness and warping in the planks. The second one was much easier – an old pine headboard I picked up a few weeks ago cut into a rectangle and with a few small blocks on the underside to keep it in place.

I’ll have to see which design works better but, for now, both will do.