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My in-laws commissioned me to make this blanket chest. It’s always fun to build stuff for loved ones. Plus I think they enjoyed watching the progress along the way.
It’s made of red oak plainsawn red oak with solid quartersawn, book-matched panels.
I guess you could say I designed it, but it’s pretty straight-forward. Lots of clean lines. I tried to use the grain as ornamentation. Also tried to give the piece depth with varied thicknesses of materials.
All mortise and tenon, frame and panel joinery. The corners are mitered with a spline. Breadboard ends on the lid. I milled some tongue and groove aromatic cedar for the bottom. The finish is minwax golden oak stain followed by several coats of wipe-on satin poly.
Hardware is two 60lb. torsion hinges from rockler. I really like this setup. Stays open kinda like a laptop.
I made a couple tutorial blogs along the way:
Mitered Spline Blog
Book-matched Panels Blog
And a couple pics of the build. 
Questions and Comments always welcome.
Peace out, Red
-- Red -- "There's nothin' in the world so sad as talking to a man, who never knew his life was his for making." Ray LamMontagne
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lightcs1776
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#1 posted 210 days ago
Looks great, Red. It’s been a real pleasure seeing this project as you’ve posted on the furniture makers thread. Thanks for sharing the journey.
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bhog
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#2 posted 210 days ago
Nice work.
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#3 posted 210 days ago
Awesome job
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#4 posted 210 days ago
You Sir, are a fine craftsman.
Beautiful piece.
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ShaneA
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#5 posted 210 days ago
Looks nice, you have a fine job on this one.
Douglas
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#6 posted 210 days ago
I can only find plain sawn red oak around here, but I like the look of the qtr sawn on this. Nice looking project.
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#7 posted 210 days ago
Well done!
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AnthonyReed
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#8 posted 210 days ago
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#9 posted 210 days ago
Very nice! Nice looking shop as well!
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#10 posted 210 days ago
Wow thats awesome, great work bro!
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peekasan
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#11 posted 210 days ago
Great blanket chest. This one came out really nice.
We always seem to post projects on the same day. We need to quit that, because I can’t compete with you.
Can you speak to the wipe-on poly? What brand did you use, and how was it to work with?
Great job.
john2005
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#12 posted 210 days ago
Looks every bit as good as I would have expected from you Big Red. I am sure they are very pleased.
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#13 posted 210 days ago
excellent!!
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#14 posted 210 days ago
Great looking chest.
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#15 posted 210 days ago
Great job! and that is a nice workbench too.
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