OK Lets try again - using Thunderbird this time.

All solid three quarter inch oak (top and front panels quarter sawn)
Mortice and tenon frame joints, mitred corners on the lid, dowel joints
at the leg corners and mitred box lip so no exposed end grain showing
anywhere (unless you tip it up and see the end of the legs!). Finished
in five coats of my own mix of equal parts PU lacquer, white spirit and
danish oil, then wax polished.

Took two days to build it and seven nights to finish.

I recently priced a similar store bought one and they were asking around
450 UK Pounds (approx 900 US Dollars)........ the wood for this cost me
around 90 UK Pounds.

Regards from Glenrothes in Scotland
Mick

Mick

Mick

Very nice. I like the light color. It is more of an elegant design than I
have seen in blanket chests. It would fit perfectly into certain settings.

On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:30:00 GMT, Man at Keyboard
wrote:

OK Lets try again - using Thunderbird this time.

All solid three quarter inch oak (top and front panels quarter sawn)
Mortice and tenon frame joints, mitred corners on the lid, dowel joints
at the leg corners and mitred box lip so no exposed end grain showing
anywhere (unless you tip it up and see the end of the legs!). Finished
in five coats of my own mix of equal parts PU lacquer, white spirit and
danish oil, then wax polished.

Took two days to build it and seven nights to finish.

Looks very good. Would have taken me a heckuva lot longer than 2 days.
A tiny bit odd that the grain in the panels is going one way on the
front and the other on the side.


-Leuf

On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 23:47:37 -0400, Leuf wrote:

On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:30:00 GMT, Man at Keyboard
wrote:

OK Lets try again - using Thunderbird this time.

All solid three quarter inch oak (top and front panels quarter sawn)
Mortice and tenon frame joints, mitred corners on the lid, dowel joints
at the leg corners and mitred box lip so no exposed end grain showing
anywhere (unless you tip it up and see the end of the legs!). Finished
in five coats of my own mix of equal parts PU lacquer, white spirit and
danish oil, then wax polished.

Took two days to build it and seven nights to finish.

Looks very good. Would have taken me a heckuva lot longer than 2 days.
A tiny bit odd that the grain in the panels is going one way on the
front and the other on the side.


-Leuf

Thanks Leuf,

Yeah! If you check out picture 3 you will see that the end and back panels
grain runs up and down while the lid and front panels run left to right..
it was due to wood size limitations - I only had a limited stock of the
quarter sawn stuff so had to make best use of it.

Good that it's creating comments though! I would welcome any more feedback
that anyone has as to the aesthetic or structural reasons for
differing grain orientation in panel build furniture.

Mick in Glenrothes, Scotland

On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 21:54:18 -0400, Lee Michaels wrote:



Very nice. I like the light color. It is more of an elegant design than I
have seen in blanket chests. It would fit perfectly into certain settings.

Thanks for the comments Lee,

I have always been and advocate of letting the natural colour and grain
show through on my pieces, that's why I don't use any strong colourants or
stains.

Mick in Glenrothes, Scotland

I'm jealous. Nicer than mine. I won't show your pictures to my
wife. HaHa

George

On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:30:00 GMT, Man at Keyboard
wrote:

OK Lets try again - using Thunderbird this time.

All solid three quarter inch oak (top and front panels quarter sawn)
Mortice and tenon frame joints, mitred corners on the lid, dowel joints
at the leg corners and mitred box lip so no exposed end grain showing
anywhere (unless you tip it up and see the end of the legs!). Finished
in five coats of my own mix of equal parts PU lacquer, white spirit and
danish oil, then wax polished.

Took two days to build it and seven nights to finish.

I recently priced a similar store bought one and they were asking around
450 UK Pounds (approx 900 US Dollars)........ the wood for this cost me
around 90 UK Pounds.

Regards from Glenrothes in Scotland
Mick

On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:57:38 -0500, GAH22000 wrote:

I'm jealous. Nicer than mine. I won't show your pictures to my
wife. HaHa

George


Hi George...

No need for any jealousy.... there ain't nobodies work that is nicer than
anybody elses.... we just chose to use different methods to achieve the
same end :-)

I was slightly envious of your long piano hinge - then I thought of having
to put in 50 pilot holes for 50 screws, and all straight too.....
then I was glad I just used three butt hinges....... 8-)

Keep posting the pictures.

It snowed again today in Glenrothes, Scotland
Just for a few minutes.

Mick