Aluminum Cornered Crate by Susan Stevenson

Aluminum Cornered Crate

This crate began life as the leg of a sawhorse...

I love the old paint on the wood.

Using an old aluminum mini loaf pan

and tin snips, I cut pieces of the trays to use as corners...

The aluminum is soft and easy to pry the trays apart...

Using the corner of the wooden crate,

I shaped each metal corner to the box using a hammer,

then screwed the metal into place.

The handle is the heavy aluminum wire that was

holding all the tins together...

Using one more piece of aluminum from the trays

I made an attachment for the handle.

Epoxy underneath the metal helps hold the handle in place.

The crate came out great, the aluminum looks like

galvanized steel and adds a lot of character to this crate.