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Keeping Chest
8 commentsSolid Tiger Maple Keeping Chest with applied moldings and ogee bracket feet. Style is Queen Anne "ish" (according to the box designer and woodworker Charles Neil). The finish is several coats of NGR...
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Jewelry Chest
4 commentsThe doors were made of a piece of claro walnut from the tree's grafts site, resawn to 1/8" and then vacuum veneered to a solid walnut core. The curved side supports are black walnut with a mild curl...
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Live & Kickin
2 commentsThis is a Humidor I built and gave away for a contest on a website formerly known as Cigar Live. The contest was to send cigars randomly on the site and get a ticket to win the humidor. No...
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Mahogany Spice Box with String and Berry Inlay
6 commentsI wanted to do a project to practice hand-cut dovetails. When I saw Steve Latta's spicebox (FWW #196) it looked like an ideal project with more than 100 dovetails. I enhanced the design with...
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Oak and Acorn Flatware Chest
Oak flatware chest. Hand carved oak leaves and acorns to match handmade cross-stitch chest top.
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antique of the future
4 commentsjewelry chest of 'plum pudding' cherry - tree cut from this farm, sawn on my woodmizer, air dried 3 years - app. 17" wide, 9" deep, 12" tall - only hardware is the screw on which the catch rotates...
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Cypress Bombay Chest
These are Bombay Chest Jewelry Boxes. I cut them from a single block of cypress. David Marks had featured one out of walnut in a magazine and I used his idea to make mine.
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Spalted Maple chest with coopered lid
This spalted maple chest measures 38" x 22" x 24". The top consists of staves (bent laminations) coopered and joined to form a top that is curved from end to end and front to back. The...
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hope chest
Made from Oregon Myrtlewood. Frame and panel construction with book matched panels. It measures 32"x 19"x20" and is lined with aromatic cedar .
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Cherry tool box
1 commentAfter looking at many plans for ideas, I came up with this heirloom tool box. It took me a month to build and was an enjoyable project. It is made of solid cherry that I bought roughsawn.
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Cocobolo Photo Frame Keepsake Box
Arched-top, dovetailed keepsake box by John W. Nixon. This unique arched-top keepsake box is an eye catching item with a unique feature on the inside - a place to frame a picture. This box...
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Granddaughter Katie's 16th birthday hope chest
1 commentI build a cedar lined hope chest for my daughters and for my granddaughters upon their 16th birthday. This one belongs to Katie and it's the 5th one I've built. I used an Amana Tool® tambour bit...
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Congratulations to our winner!
Congratulations to our winner Christopher Moore from Madison, WI . Click here to view his Cello Box.
