Acquire and Prepare Lumber

all right so to get started on this project i went down to my local hardware store and i picked up about roughly between 13 and 16 1x5 but they're really like one by four and a half uh the common wood boards they're the cheapest stuff you could find at home depot or lowe's or any other kind of stores now take your time pick out the most straightest one because we're not really going to put them on a joiner in a planer so we really need them to work in our favor to be straight so now the overall dimensions of the treasure chest with the lid closed would range about 27 inches tall 20 inches wide and 30 inches long so to kind of speed up the process i decided to mass cut all the pieces that we needed for this job so the sides were all 28 and a half inches to accommodate the extra inch and a half on both sides and then the end caps were about 20 inches long as well so now that