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Adjustable Box Joint Jig

As I previously noted I want to make some box jointed tool boxes since the issue of finding tools in my shop is just becoming silly. I want to make router lock jointed drawers for these tool boxes. To that end I am making a box joint jig, a router table, and a drill press table... Not necessarily in that order.

The Router table is complete. I still have to draw out some plans for the bench version that is put together and I will post that eventually.

I have the plan drawn out for the drill press table and will post it as soon as I can get it emailed to this account... probably in the next 2 days
 
I am going to post what I can on the adjustable box joint jig here. The jig is from ShopNotes Vol.2, Issue 8. Published July 1993 by Woodsmith. Obviously since this is copyright material and I will not just drop the thing into this blog.  But I will drop the first page for your perusal and a couple of incomplete drawings I made from online sources.
 
The first page for your drool... LOL!
 
 
 
When I started looking for a jig and found a bunch of hints at the above jig but I couldn't find the source so I drew up what I knew from an Instructables and some partial images from Google Images and Pinterest. These are the drawings I made up. They are missing some key details since my public domain sources where incomplete as well.
 
 
 
Latter in trying to come up with the rest of the plan I found out is was from ShopNotes and tried to down load the plan. I failed. I could not get the site to let me download... still not sure why. https://www.woodsmithplans.com/plan/box-joint-jig/ is the site I tried to use and it just was very difficult... I am sure your luck with it would be better than mine... maybe.
 
Eventually I found the issue in my archive here at home and touched up my drawings so I can make up the jig. I do of course have the original article and plans. I wish all y'all luck if you want to build this jig. You will have a better start than what I had several weeks ago.
 
I found the below illustration from the Woodsmith plan site I previously mentioned. I thought it serves to fill in some of the blank spots I mentioned where in the public domain on jigs like this.
 
 
 
More later on the other parts of this project series for the tool boxes. 10-10-2017 CLHC
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