Simple Box question

[EIEIO]

I had a few scraps of 3/4" pine and 1/4" birch plywood. I cut box walls as 2 concentric rectangles from the pine and glued on the plywood. After sanding it made a pretty nice box about the size of a deck of cards (or a pack of cigarette). But all the box builds I've seen seem to cut the box walls from 2 different pieces of wood. Is this only because of the saw kerf? This small box seems to have a good fit, and I can make it tighter by reversing the top (slight differences in the cut line make it snug).

Any thoughts why you'd use 2 pieces rather than one to make the top and bottom walls? 

[Rapid Roger]

No, no reason at all that both the inner and outer walls couldn't be cut form one piece of wood. In fact, I never thought of using two pieces as there is too much waste.
 These sides of the boxes were cut from one piece of 2" cherry for each box and then I used purple heart wood for the tops and bottoms. The knobs were cut from the inner scrap piece of one of them after re sawing it to 1" thick.



Waste not want not.

Rog

[wombatie]

I figure you just work with the wood that you have.

Marg

Ps,  nice boxes guys.   

[Retired Coastie]

I would think you wouldn't want a tight fit. With the movement of wood and especially soft woods the wood is going to move and there may be some days you wouldn't be able to open the box due to changes in the humidity levels.

By the way nice box!