pirate's treasure chest

Very Cool!!

What grade does your wife teach?

-- Lew- Time traveler. Purveyor of the world's finest custom rolling pins!

What a cracker!!!
Damn fine chest.. looks to be made when pirates sailed the Spanish Main.

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looks like fun ... bet it went over well at the school

-- keeping myself entertained

She is a paraeducator (teacher’s aide) in the library. It has drawn a few oos and aws where she has taken it. One lady wanted me to make her one, but she decided her husband could do it, if he would:-)

PS, thought I’d better get some projects posted before ya’ll decided I was just a wannabe :-)) I finally took these pics today. I have taken them several times. I still don’t like them, the lighting never seems to come out right on the curved top.

-- "some old things are lovely, warm still with life ... of the forgotten men who made them." - D.H. Lawrence Wake Up America!! Please read; http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/26-0

Looks great to me. Thanks for posting. I’m sure there’s gunna be a pirate theme birthday party in my future, so I’ll be looking this one up again.

-- I didn't go to college, I was too busy learning stuff - Ted Nugent

That’s a fine chest looks great

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So what did you do with the treasure ??? It looks empty lol. Nice work !!!

-- Don S.E. OK

No treasure left, the wife spent it all :-((

-- "some old things are lovely, warm still with life ... of the forgotten men who made them." - D.H. Lawrence Wake Up America!! Please read; http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/26-0

Believe me…I know that feeling !

-- Don S.E. OK

Great job Bob. I can relate to it’s being empty. Maybe you can sell these to the government to keep our money in.

-- Mike, American in Norway

Hey Topamax…...great looking chest…...well done.

That’s a very good chest. Your dovetailing on the mitered side is what impressed me.Great service to your wife.
Sharad

-- “If someone feels that they had never made a mistake in their life, then it means they have never tried a new thing in their life”.-Albert Einstein

Very cool! That’s using some great skills coming up with that.
I have many young friends that would love to have one of those.
Good project to practice skills and a super gift for the young.
Great to see, thanks…....................

-- mtnwild (Jack), It's not what you see, it's how you see it.

Thanks for all the comments. Now, I’ll fess up. I only had to make one new end when I cut those compound miter joint dovetails wrong :-)) I made the pins and tails about the same size because I wasn’t too sure how it was all going to work out when I started. That pine was so soft, I was a bit worried about having the pins to small. The front and end both slope at the same angle.

-- "some old things are lovely, warm still with life ... of the forgotten men who made them." - D.H. Lawrence Wake Up America!! Please read; http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/26-0

Mike, if I made them for the gov’t, they’d probably pay in worthless Continentals. My 7th Great Grandfather lost everything because he was paid with them for his service in the War.

-- "some old things are lovely, warm still with life ... of the forgotten men who made them." - D.H. Lawrence Wake Up America!! Please read; http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/26-0