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Steve Beadle
04-08-2005, 11:08 AM
Did anyone else notice the nice through dovetails on the Pope's cypress casket? I thought some craftsman did an elegant job, worthy of the pontiff.
Dan Moening
04-08-2005, 12:49 PM
Might be easier on this forum to ask who didn't. ;)

I suspect that some generational family business has been doing this job for centuries.

Wouldn't love to see "the building of the Pope's casket" on the History Channel?

Wonder how much was done with handtools?
James Mittlefehldt
04-10-2005, 12:36 AM
When I saw some footage of the funeral on a local news magazine show the first thing I noticed, was the dovetails on the coffin, was that Cypress as you said?
Brian Jarnell
04-10-2005, 2:01 AM
Do you think the boards were one piece,could't see any joins.

They probably have a nice selection of timber in there shop.:)
Aaron Kline
04-10-2005, 10:14 AM
from what the news said there are actually two wooden caskets, the inside one is cypress and the outside one is pine I think they say. I don't know why they do that, but theres gotta be some reason.
John Dingman
04-10-2005, 10:22 AM
from what the news said there are actually two wooden caskets, the inside one is cypress and the outside one is pine I think they say. I don't know why they do that, but theres gotta be some reason.It actually goes into three Caskets and then into a vault. The reason they do that is to slow the decomposition of the body. At least that's what the article I read said.

John
James Mittlefehldt
04-10-2005, 11:03 AM
from what the news said there are actually two wooden caskets, the inside one is cypress and the outside one is pine I think they say. I don't know why they do that, but theres gotta be some reason.

I thought the outside looked like pine and on the one side there was clearly two boards together, or so it appeared to me, nice work though nevertheless.
Jim Becker
04-10-2005, 12:29 PM
The outside casket is oak according to news reports.
Aaron Kline
04-10-2005, 8:05 PM
The outside casket is oak according to news reports.

You may be right, but I know a lot of people who look at wood, and if it doesn't look like pine, its oak. "Hey where'd you get that nice chocolate brown colored oak from?":rolleyes: