Show Us Your Hope Chest/Toy Box/Trunks

[Daniel Simon]

Guys, I'm trying to get some ideas for a charity project I'm trying to do. Can you guys post pics of your Hope Chest/Toy Box/Steamer Trunks. Thanks in advance.

[Jim King]

This is a gift to our Grandaughter for her High School graduation.

[Bob Michaels]

Daniel - This is a solid oak toy box that I built for my grandson. I used soft closing hardware and undercut the front panel so little knuckles don't get bruised. Hope it helps.

[Art Mulder]

Simple birch plywood box with wrap-around cherry legs that I made back in
99. Sorry about the quality of photo, but it's what I have easily online

Details Right Here. (http://www.imaging.robarts.ca/%7Eamulder/wood/proj-chest.html)

[Rick de Roque]

I made this out of cherry.


http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/rd4212/woodworking%20stuff/Blanketchestc.jpg

Rick

[John Fry]

This is a Frank Lloyd Wright inspired, prairie style, dressing bench and cedar lined blanket chest.

http://www.chiselandbit.com/cgi-script/CSUpload//upload/Davis_Chest%252edb/Davis%20chest.JPG


http://www.chiselandbit.com/cgi-script/CSUpload//upload/Davis_Chest%252edb/Header.jpg

The front inlay is from the design in the carpet of the 1906 Roby house living room,

http://www.chiselandbit.com/cgi-script/CSUpload//upload/Davis_Chest%252edb/Davis%20inlay.jpg

and the end inlays were from the design imbroidered in the bedroom's bedspreads.

http://www.chiselandbit.com/cgi-script/CSUpload//upload/Davis_Chest%252edb/Finished%20end.JPG

[Mack Cameron]

http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=37022&highlight=Cherry+honey+Locust+chest
Daniel; have a look here. I posted this some time ago.

[Daniel Simon]

Wow, keep them coming guys. Great work.

[Tom Ruflin]

Here is a Tack Trunk I made for my niece out of cypress. The rods inside the top hold the leg wraps and there is a small removable and sliding box just inside to hold the small stuff.

[George Matthews]

My grandson liked this steamer chest, which we call a 'Teasure chest'. It was a challenge to build however.

[Dave Shively]

Mine is red oak with a purpleheart/maple sliding drawer.

http://pic15.picturetrail.com/VOL573/3197729/6523784/176800631.jpg

http://pic15.picturetrail.com/VOL573/3197729/6523784/176800628.jpg

[Aaron Montgomery]

I've built the following:

http://home.insightbb.com/~apmonte/HeirloomChest.html
http://home.insightbb.com/~apmonte/BlanketChest.html
http://home.insightbb.com/~apmonte/TackTrunk.html

Plus the attached for which I have not created a web page yet.

[Corey Hallagan]

Wow some real beautiful chests here! Nice work guys, all of you.

corey

[Daniel Simon]

Really nice guys. Thanks for posting.

[glenn bradley]

You all realize the LOML is going to possibly see these and you know what that means ;-)

[Ron Fritz]

Here's a toy chest that I did for my granddaughter last year. The plans are on my web site.

[Daniel Simon]

Thanks again guys. Very nice work from everyone.

[Steve Aiken]

I built this hope chest for my daughter when she was 16......I used plans from the New Yankee Workshop and modified them a bit. Clear pine, stained, and distressed for an antique look. The lock is from Lee Valley tools. The steel banding was made by a local metal shop, distressed, and painted black. The feet are from Lee Valley.

Steve

[Lincoln Myers]

Great looking chests everyone. Nice thread to watch, thanks for starting it Daniel.

-Linc

[Jim Hager]

Here is a walnut chest I did for my wife after 27 years of marriage. I harvested the walnut myself when I was 18 and finally got around to building the chest a couple of years ago. It is one piece of four that I built as a bedroom suite. The rest of it is on my website. hagerwoodworks.com

[Mike Kelly]

Here are a couple I did a few years ago.

http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=5315

[lou sansone]

I've built the following:

http://home.insightbb.com/~apmonte/HeirloomChest.html
http://home.insightbb.com/~apmonte/BlanketChest.html
http://home.insightbb.com/~apmonte/TackTrunk.html

Plus the attached for which I have not created a web page yet.

aaron
wow... you are quite a craftman! really enjoyed all the links to see what other chests that you have made. each one had a great design and looked great when done. I really liked the tack trunk with the metal accents. fantastic .... I hope other folks take some time to look at aaron's work
lou

[Art Mulder]

Here is a walnut chest I did for my wife after 27 years of marriage. I harvested the walnut myself when I was 18 and finally got around to building the chest a couple of years ago.

Jim, that sounds like an interesting story. Storing wood for almost(?) 30 years before finally using it? How many times did you almost use it, lose it, sell it? What were your original plans for it? Tell us about it sometime.

best,
...art
ps: nice chest

[lou sansone]

here is one that I built

patterned after 18th century Pennsylvania dower chest

[Charlie Plesums]

Pictures of one I built, and suggestions such as dimensions, on www.plesums.com/wood/livingroom/toychest.html (http://www.plesums.com/wood/livingroom/toychest.html)

[Mike Cutler]

I wish I could show you a completed chest, but here is a horse blanket/Tack trunk in progress.

The design is from the book "In The Craftsman Style". The chest is much larger, and the joinery significantly beefed up. Materials are Brazillian Cherry and Wenge.

The box in the rough as of today.
46980

The raised panel for the top, still in the "stocks".

46981

The Spanish Cedar still to be resawn for the interior.
46982

The Wenge Frame for the lid.
46983

The double through M&T joints.

46984

Still to go is to cut the legs into a rectangular octagon shape, drill the pins for the M&T joints, cut the foxtail wedges for the through tenons, make the bottom, and install the hardware. I have about two weeks, or this may not get done until spring.:eek: :eek: OK, maybe December.

Lou.

That's a beautiful chest, not that they all aren't. I look at some of things you post, and wonder why I even bother. I'm not even particurally drawn to the period of furniture that you reproduce, but I find myself studying your completed pieces at length. You have some serious talent my friend.
Well done, very well done.