Snap and Store Box Finger Joint Clips?

[fgatto]

Hello does anyone know of a simple way on how to create the finger joint clips, not really sure what the name of them are, that are on the ‘snap and store’ box in the original dashboard designs? Any direction or advice would be greatly appreciated thank you in advance!

[evansd2]

Never made that box but there have been plenty of posts on locking tab joints going back all the way to almost the beginning of the forum.

Here’s a thread I started in January 2018 about it.

Simple locking tab joints

I wanted to make a way to lock a structure together that was fairly strong and could be dissembled with no tools. This is an early (very rough) prototype of that effort. [image] [image] I refined the design to use smaller pegs and a more robust rounded center tab in a holiday gift, but the prototype pieces illustrate the concept pretty well. The whole thing was cut out of birch ply. If you attempt something like this beware that hardwoods will break very easily across their grain. Orient a…

Definitely read through it for the 50 locking joint doc. It’s legendary.