The simple little lidded box is held together with a single routed lap dovetail. A templet with 1-1/4" hole in it was used to rout the finger grip access for the lid.
The experimental connection (in rear) requires a fastener to hold it together. The tenon was made on my tenonmaker in less than a minute. The disc was templet cut.
Close miters (returns in this case) are facilitated with a
routed T&G. The core of the shelf (barely visable) is wood and
has the tongue. Glue the front edge to the shelf, then the
return. The end piece (return) won't slip this way. The faces
on the miters were precision sanded, I could never saw that
close.
The utility hole in my beam became such a problem I patched it
with the Jatoba, a complimentary/templet routing procedure. The
hole allowed me to rest a router flat down with a cutter in the
collet.
The foot on the floor of my bench was styled after some airport
seating at LAX.
This picture represents a fraction of the diversity of
routing. The drawer pull finger land is a templet routed
cut. The mortices are plunge routed in a jig and the slots for
the splines are table routed, what fun!