Six board chest glamour shots

From above.
From above.
Front and side.
Curly Sapele Six Board Chest
The End.
Inside
Top.
Another view of the top.
Clinched nail.
Hand cut moulding.
The Nails.
In its new home on the porch.

Wood: Sapele – Hardwood to Go

Preparation: Top is sanded to 320, all other surfaces are hand planed / scraped.

Finish: Watco Teak Oil

finish (1 of 1)

Six board chest # 2

edge jointing1 (1 of 1)

Today my friend Brick came over to start working on HIS six board chest.  Sometime this month, Brick and his wife will be welcoming a new addition and this six board chest will be a toy box for the new one.

Brick’s pretty new to woodworking and he got to try out hand planes for the first time jointing edges to glue.  His chest will be made of some very nice straight grained fir. Here’s a couple of pics.

Edge jointing some nice fir.
Top all glued up.

Moulding class interuption

Bet you thought my next post would be about my finished six board chest.  Sadly, not .. BUT for a good reason!  🙂

Months ago, I signed up for Matt Bickford’s Moulding Plane class at Port Townsend Woodworking School and it was this weekend.  As usual, it’s always really fun to go to PT and our class was a good one.  From what I can see Matt works his butt of setting up a system that works for beginners.  I can’t imagine how much time he’s spent figuring out all of this.  

BTW, moulding planes probably should come with a warning.  There is math and visualization involved.  I had a fried brain by the end of class.

Here are a few shots from class.

The Collection Matt brings with him.
My first moulding with a round.
Flattening the bottom of the round.
The layout.

PS.  I also got a chance to meet  Rob Campbell of The Jointer’s Apprentice who now works there!!