Scott made some interesting and amusing observations, closed by:


>I am still struggling with the brass corners. What was that all about? 
>Did he glue them in? Why don't they just fall back out next week? How do 
>they strengthen the box? They look killer, but I worry hahaah


At 28:01, he is applying glue prior to tapping in the brass. The appropriate
adhesive, and a little roughening of the faces inside, and they will never come
out. I have used epoxy to hold 360 brass to oak (replacement nameplate- the
escutcheon pin holes were iron-sick and so the brass replacement pins were also
glued in) that has held for better than a decade so far.

I should imagine that the brass is intended to act as a pretty spline, nothing
more fancy, and so helps add more face glue to the joint, as splines do. Just
shiny brass rather than, say, maple.



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