My daughter Angela, and her husband Matt, wanted me to build an electrical box that would take the place of the one you see below. This new box would be for their business at Open Door Escape Games in a room called, Lethal Injection. The box that you see here was fastened to the wall when they moved in their building and was not being used at that time. But they kept it just in case they might find a use for it someday. And sure enough they did use it, for about seven months. However, it wasn't exactly what they wanted, but it was convenient. 

Inside this small 7" X 7" box, it had a few wires that their customers needed to mess with by undoing a wire or two and moving them to another spot. One thing lead to another and this part of the game just wasn't working to my daughter's liking. That's where I come in, they wanted me to make something larger and a little better looking. Something that would fit the theme of the older look of this game.

They both gave me a direction to go in, along with some dimensions and just like that, I had a new project.
 

This new box will be 24" X 17" X 4" and will be made out of wood and metal. Below I'm planing a 2" X 4" so all the surfaces are nice and clean.
 

I'm going to cover the outside of the box with some16 gage sheet metal, which I had sheared to 4" wide. The other piece on the right is for the door and is 21" X 14" X 3/16" thick cold rolled steel. The reason the door is so thick is because Matt really liked the thickness of the two doors we used for the "Operation Save Christmas" game. Is it overkill? Yes! But it will work great, should take a beating and look good as well.
 

I'm getting ready to start cutting some metal to length but first I'm making sure that everything is going to line up. What I mean is, I'm going to use some 1 1/4" X 1/8" flat bar on the face of the box, which will butt-up against the 4" wide piece. However, I want to make sure that the flat bar is overhanging into the box slightly when I'm finished.
 

Here you can see a sample piece of flat bar, which is in the perfect position for the amount of overhang. But the distance between the two pieces of metal are not correct because I want them touching each other. That means I need to remove a small amount of wood before I go any farther.
 

I ran all the wood back through my thickness planer one more time removing about 1/16" which worked out great.