The only thing i can come up with is to start with a long mitre on the edges, use a jig to cut a 45 degree dado on each corner, then inlay the edges/feet?
My concerns are:
- I can't use splines on the mitres, they'll be visible.
- I'll be cutting most of the mitre joint away, leaving very little glue surface.
- I'd have to glue in the feet/edges cross-grain, so the glue will probably fail with wood movement.
The upside is that this is an urn (i guess that's not an upside for everyone involved) so I'll be gluing the lid on, which should provide some extra stability.
@nice
Nice box.
Looks like it’s a carcass and panels build. So the corners/feet are the four stiles of the box carcass with mitred panel grooves along their length. (The walls of the grooves would need to be mitred but not the bottoms of the grooves; they only need to be sufficiently deep, thus the stiles sufficiently thick.) Likewise the rails would have mitred joins with the stiles, plus right angle panel grooves on the bottom rails
That’s how I would try it, anyway. Not an easy one.