Guide to making a turned box with a drawer for mounting the
Prokraft PKR CGA Coffee Grinder Mill Kit
What follows is a pictorial guide to making a turned coffee box with pull out drawer, it is not an
instruction sheet and depending on your skill and equipment you may have other ways to complete
a similar project but we hope this will be a good starting point.
We started with rough sawn sapele – planed would have been better to complete the project
however our planer/thicknesser didn’t want to play nicely, or actually at all!
The tools we used are as follows:
45mm forstner bit
3.5mm HSS drill bit
8.5mm HSS drill bit (for fitting the brass knob)
Hacksaw (for fitting the brass knob)
Jacobs chuck
Pillar/bench drill
Wood lathe
Lathe chuck/dovetail jaws
Bandsaw
Belt sander
We started with 4 square sections (ours were 170mm
2
and 30mm thick, we would not use less than
120mm
2
), 2 of them were glued together to make the drawer sections
You will see that we have marked out with a compass 2 circles
which will be the inner and outer walls of the drawer.
We have then drawn 2 parallel lines from the widest points of the
circles to the front of the drawer – these come out at a slight angle
to make sure we can pull the drawer out cleanly.
If you pointed them inwards you would make a nice drawer that
would not pull out!
Next we cut around the outer pencil mark on
the bandsaw:
