Pirate Chest

very cool

-- gagewestern

aww…. thats’ what I WAS GOING TO SAY!

very cool indeed!

I like the authentic look it has. touche

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Arrrrgh Matey! Is this be where the grog is stored?

Great chest….particularly like the selection of hardware. Keep up the good work and Welcome to LJs.

-- Doug, New Mexico.......the only stupid question is one that is never asked!........don't fix it, if it ain't broke!

Awesome… I’m really liking that skull and crossbones. The chuncky hardware makes it really cool…. nicely done!

-- As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17) †

I am with the rest of them. Very cool. The errors just make it look more authentic. Good Job.

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this is great cool idea

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

Very neat. BZ

-- Dudley Young USN Ret.

wonderful!!
I like it.

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I want to make a couple of these for my twin grandsons for Christmas – my daughter says they are into pirates and ships. I’ve searched and searched but can’t find a formula for figuring out the bevel on the rounded top pieces; even looked under coopering, coopered chests, etc. Suppose I’ll have to draw it out full size and then figure the angles from the drawing but seems to me if you draw lines from the center point, that the angles on each piece will be different.

Jim

That’s really a neat chest. I like all the details and your hardware is really unique, where did you find that?

-- John @ Myrtle Beach

Thank you all for your comments,
Jim, for this one I just rough sanded till each piece fit over the side. For my other one I took a more scientific approach. All of the angles you use have to equal up to 180 degrees (half a circle). So if you want a very rounded one like this each angle should be the same, so you take the number of pieces you want and divide 180 by that number and you get the the angle each piece needs to fit to the next one with, divide that in half and you have the angle you need to cut. If you want a more rounded part near the bottom with a large enough flat spot at the top to sit on you just increase the angles near the bottom and decrease the angles near the top, always keeping all the angles equaling 180 degrees. The hard part is figuring out how big each piece needs to be to get it to fit with the bottom piece. For that I use trigonometry, sin,cos, tan. After I have figured out the angles I use trig to find out how much each piece goes up and how much it goes over, think of each piece as a right triangle, with all of the X axis of each triangle equaling the depth of the bottom of the box. Then I rough sand to get it just right for final dimensions.

Huff, I got them from van dykes: http://www.vandykes.com/category/trunk-restoration-hardware

that is really cool. I think that the rustic old world feel makes it look like I immagined a treasure chest in the books I read as a kid

really cool

Versa, thanks for the info. I guess if you wanted to use a portion of the circle (an arc), not the entire half circle, you could do the same thing with say 160 deg. I found some posts on the Australian Woodworking Forum but when they started talking about chords, radians, etc. I realized how much I have lost since high school geometry 40+ years ago! I did like this idea, though – test pieces.

Again nice job on the chests and thanks for the help. Guess I had best get cracking if I am going to have them done by Christmas!

Jim

I do like the effect the skull has on the chest. I would of never thought of using a sand blaster. The metal bands are a great touch which makes the chest looks like it been lifted off of a pirate ship.

-- Richard Flower

Very cool, and the skull and crossed swords along with the heavy black iron hardware really makes the project. Great job!

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Arrrr! I think this is cool.

Yo Ho HO.What a neat looking box.

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