pirate's treasure chest

Very Cool!!

What grade does your wife teach?

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

-- Drink once, cut twice. New website up.... lazylarrywoodworks.com.au

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

-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

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.

-- Debt is nothing more than the 21st Century's form of slavery.

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'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine - Johnny Rotten

That’s a fine chest looks great

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

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 :-((

-- Debt is nothing more than the 21st Century's form of slavery.

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.

-- I will just keep doing it till I get it right.

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

-- patanjali

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.

-- Debt is nothing more than the 21st Century's form of slavery.

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.

-- Debt is nothing more than the 21st Century's form of slavery.

Thats a great looking chest you’ve got there. Now if you can fill it up with gold pieces of eight.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

topamax—great chest! i’ll bet sawing all those kerfs was a lot of fun—making sawdust.

i could never do those compound miter dovetails. it takes me forever to do the compound miters alone… i was doing regular, 90 degree dovetails. i read an article that sez to do a dovetail corner evey day… i think i got to 17 and called it quits.

but i have done a couple of slope-sided serving-type trays with plain mitered corners, and even found a way to set the blade and miter guage without any math or measuring. i’m gonna try one made with a hardwood next.

rich

-- Far-North Wood-Works (a fantasy company)

Hey Bob,
Way to go! Now all you gotta do is Rig a skelital hand to come up out of the hidden bottom when anyone reaches in. Fill with candy and scare the pants off those Auburn kids on Hallowen. ;-))

Afraid I would have to track them down. We live in a bad spot of traffice in the dark, so we don’t get many trick or treaters. I’ll tell my son. He might like the idea for his annual Halloween party:-))

-- Debt is nothing more than the 21st Century's form of slavery.