Another spline day in the shop

Having completed the box joinery on my necklace case project, it's time to move on to the lid or top.  The client has also asked for a mitered top, rather than rail and stile in order to keep the same clean lines as the case itself.  I had several joinery options here, I could have done a mitered half lap, a saddle joint, or splines along the miter joint, or across.  I ultimately decided to do splines across the glue joint mainly because I have a jig already that I use often times for making small mitered boxes.  Once again, this keeps the exposed joinery to a minimum, but leaves a fairly strong joint. 


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