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I made a little treasure chest for my grandson Tyler, just a bit of cheap pine , coopered top (I had to work that out from scratch - not easy) , little tray (otherwise he'd have too much treasure at once) , finished in Brywax & filled with chocolate coins - total cost about £15. When Tyler saw it he said "A pirate chest! A REAL one!"
I'll never make any money woodworking , but the look on his little face was priceless :eek:)
Last pic is him with the Smurf (Murphy , one of the hellhounds)

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You did an excellent job on building this for your grandson. The added touch of the chocolate coins is priceless too. Well done.
 

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Cool project! I love things like this. That's a beautiful picture of your grandson and dog.
 

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That is an awesome project! Thanks for sharing!!
 

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Someday, Tyler's grandson will play with it too! Nice.
 

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There's a great looking pirate treasure box!
 

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Colin, That's a great chest. I've been dreaming of building one for my first grandson, he's 5 months. I've got a couple of years to finalize my plans. I'm gonna save your for future reference. Thank you.
Bob
 

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Amazing piece, your grandson is very lucky!
 

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Great looking pirate chest! I'm sure he'll enjoy it, and the chocolate treasure!
 

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I love this box! I have a similar old box which I'm pretty sure came from a stage wagon in the 1800's. It's worm eaten and rustic and really cool. I plan to replicate it someday, but the big snag I run into is the coopered top (which I didn't know what it was called till now, thanks :) Maybe I should put that on my projects list sooner rather than later. I just hope it comes out as nice as the one you made.
 

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Thanks for the kind words - And apologies to smittycabinetshop who I have unwittingly plagiarised with my sign off comment - now I'll have to steal another one!
 

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Very nice box/chest.
Great picture of your grandson and "Smurph" the Hellhound.
 

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Very cool…. but where are the 16 men and the bottle of rum?

:^)
 

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HANDSOME MAN.
 

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Hi nice chest are there any plans or dimensions for it I have a niece that would love something like that.
 

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no plan - sorry - just winged it. The footprint was governed by the plank size and everything else was just kept in "pirate chest" proportion (lots of images on the interweb) good luck!! :eek:)
 

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That is a one nice looking chest!
I love the strips of wood running over the coopered top. Thin boiled strips of wood?

Thanks for sharing
/Sheisserick
 

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Sadly I don't have boiling facilities (I tried steaming still too brittle and I snapped a couple) so I just made a former and laminated a couple of 1/32" strips together - did the job and didn't burn my fingers!
 
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