Bill Grumbine
03-24-2003, 5:52 PM
Howdy everyone
It has taken me a bit of time to get this posted. I made it for one of my most special customers, my oldest daughter, who turned 16 last year. It has been finished and delivered since then, and it took me a bit to get her to unload it and let me take it up to the shop to take some pictures.
<img src = "http://www.enter.net/~ultradad/hopechest01.jpg">
This chest is made of cherry. The bottom is a piece of 1/2" Russian birch plywood topped off with aromatic cedar, making it a genuine cedar chest. I've been calling it a blanket chest, and every time I do, I get in trouble. "It is a hope chest Daddy! Don't you want me to get married?" (lower lip sticks out) Even SWMBO and the other two SWMBETTES are joining in on this. Anyway...
Overall dimensions are approximately 34 1/2" l x 18" h x 15" d. It's not huge, but it is the size she wanted. It is finished with three coats of Bartley's Gel Varnish. I used a lid support from Woodworker's Warehouse, but I am not wild about it. I will use something different for the next one I think.
<img src = "http://www.enter.net/~ultradad/hopechest02.jpg">
I am already late for starting on hope chest #2 for daughter #2.
Thanks for taking a peek.
Oh yeah, one of the reasons it took me so long to get it posted was that I just didn't feel like fighting with her to get permission to schlep it back up to the shop. I finallky did so, thinking how nice it would look photographed with my seamless paper as a backdrop. Well, dontcha know, the chest was too big for the paper to cover the mess in the shop. Sooo, I did a little magic with Adobe Photoshop Elements, and walla, as the girls say, perfect background. I think I might chuck the paper and go electronic. And just in case anyone is wondering, the only thing electronically manipulated is the background.
Bill
It has taken me a bit of time to get this posted. I made it for one of my most special customers, my oldest daughter, who turned 16 last year. It has been finished and delivered since then, and it took me a bit to get her to unload it and let me take it up to the shop to take some pictures.
<img src = "http://www.enter.net/~ultradad/hopechest01.jpg">
This chest is made of cherry. The bottom is a piece of 1/2" Russian birch plywood topped off with aromatic cedar, making it a genuine cedar chest. I've been calling it a blanket chest, and every time I do, I get in trouble. "It is a hope chest Daddy! Don't you want me to get married?" (lower lip sticks out) Even SWMBO and the other two SWMBETTES are joining in on this. Anyway...
Overall dimensions are approximately 34 1/2" l x 18" h x 15" d. It's not huge, but it is the size she wanted. It is finished with three coats of Bartley's Gel Varnish. I used a lid support from Woodworker's Warehouse, but I am not wild about it. I will use something different for the next one I think.
<img src = "http://www.enter.net/~ultradad/hopechest02.jpg">
I am already late for starting on hope chest #2 for daughter #2.
Thanks for taking a peek.
Oh yeah, one of the reasons it took me so long to get it posted was that I just didn't feel like fighting with her to get permission to schlep it back up to the shop. I finallky did so, thinking how nice it would look photographed with my seamless paper as a backdrop. Well, dontcha know, the chest was too big for the paper to cover the mess in the shop. Sooo, I did a little magic with Adobe Photoshop Elements, and walla, as the girls say, perfect background. I think I might chuck the paper and go electronic. And just in case anyone is wondering, the only thing electronically manipulated is the background.
Bill