| Project by prime8 | posted 28 days ago | 343 views | 1 time favorited | 6 comments |  |
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I made this for my wife last week. I used scrap materiels, and the lid pieces were to short to do tenons. I went the easy route with pocket screws for the top. All the dovetails were cut by hand, and I resawed my own bids-eye maple veneer… If 1/4 inch stock can be called veneer. The stock is 7/8 thick to give it a look of mass. Everything came from rough sawn stock, left over from a false beam job I did a while back.
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a1Jim
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posted 28 days ago
Nice wood and dovetails good looking overall
-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop, custom furniture ,maker, woodworking school, heirloomwoodshop.com
huff
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posted 28 days ago
Love that birdseye maple in the top (nice touch). Nice tight dovetails.
-- John @ Myrtle Beach
Jim Crockett
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posted 28 days ago
Very nice chest! The woods work very well together and the dovetails look great. Nice job!
Jim
RexMcKinnon
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posted 28 days ago
Dovetails, birdseyes, how many birds died in the making of this chest LOL.
Nice work.
-- If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail!
HarleySoftailDeuce
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posted 27 days ago
WOW…hand sawn dovetails. That takes real patience for sure. How did you finish the box? I’m making cherry face frames and raised panel doors and have not decided how to finish them.
-- Paul, Bristol,Rhode Island
prime8
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posted 26 days ago
Thanks for all the nice comments fellas. The finish is something I learned from Charles Niels a-z video series. I used trace coats of honey amber dye to pull some yellow out of the grain. I left the last coat of honey amber after final sand, and topped with mission brown tinted shellac. 2 coats. seal coat 2 lb mixed with transtint dye. Topped off with 2 coats of wipe on poly.
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