Blanket Chest Made With OSB Panels

This is very nice, Dick. It has a Spanish feel. What is the top? Have you used mortise and tenon construction in the panel frames? I’m unfamiliar with the term OSB - what does this stand for. The panels look like what I would call ‘chip board’.

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OSB Stands for oriented strand board, oka, chip board. There are 3 plants that make it in this area. They use Aspen oka, Poplar for the chips. Its mainly used for sheeting of walls & roofs. They used to sell it with a sanded finish. I’m not sure anymore about that. Right now with the poor homebuilding market, They’ve been temporarily shut down. You can buy it for $4.99 for 7/16” x 4×8’ sheet now at Lowes. That’s about 1/2 price of what it used to be. I guess a guy should buy a carload, and hoard it.LOL

The corners are just tongue & groove. The top is OSB with Spruce frame around perimeter. The chest is still in one piece yet. I must have done something right.

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Dick, very nice! I like how the OSB looks with finish. Very unusaul use for OSB. Looks great!

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As much as I hate OSB, this is a VERY nice chest, Dick.

You just might be a lumberjock, if you can make cheap, ugly OSB look good.

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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

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the OSB is a very cool touch, my home town in the north of BC is an OSB town, the stuff is practially free up there, I’ve seen guys turn it into 4×4 flooring sheets, turns out lookin very nice great use of a much hated product

-- Cheers

Hi Shawn
Thanks, I was wondering which company owned the mills in your area. The reason I’m asking, is a Canadian Company called Ainsworth bought the three mills in this area from Potlatch a few years ago. I heard one of the reasons they shut down the plants here, is they’re building, or recently started up a huge new plant up in your area. I guess the costs of logs are higher here than Canada.

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Hi Dick, This is an interesting use of OSB. I”ve used the cedar OSB. You are ahead of your time with this project.

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Hey Dick: I know a guy that makes a ton of money turning OSB and other man-made wood materials like Paralam beam material, on his lathe. They look great when turned, and a person would never figure out what it was if they didn’t ask. He combines it with hardwoods for design effect, like you have done on your table. Great.

Mark

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Sorry for the late post Dick. Very clever use of such a common construction material! It does indeed look like cork. I think it’s a fine peice.

BTW OSB does have a smooth side and a rough side. The smooth side goes down on roof sheathing, rough side up. Smooth to make sliding on rafters easier and rough side to walk safer on. fyi

-- Jimmy

Thanks Wooder,
I’ll take a compliment anytime. I’m sorry about your losing your shop. I love trees, & that’s an awful loss, but at least you’re getting something back from them.

7/16” OSB is real cheap up here now. Lowes is selling it for $4.88 / sheet now. At one time you could buy OSP pre-sanded on one side, but I haven’t noticed it lately. They’re 3 plants in this area, & 2 of them are shut down now for lack of demand on the housing market.

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