Dovetailed toy chest

Interesting design, especially the detail to keep fingers from being crushed. Toy boxes are best made of pine.

-- Terry O, Stonewall, MB, Canada

Thanks Terry

Happy New Year Jim! Love your toy box design! Nothing wrong with Pine it’s a good wood for this project! Everything look perfect to me! I know he will treasure this gift forever!

-- St Augustine FL, Experience is the sum of our mistakes!

Happy New Year! Excellent way to start the new year. Super build and a happy son and Grandson, job well done.

-- Soli Deo gloria!

Well… those dovetails realy pop up, althoigh made of pine

-- Ivan, Croatia, Wooddicted

Looks great. Like the design and the pine. Name plate carving looks great too. I’m guessing someone is a Superman fan.

-- The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up. Jean Cocteau

Looks perfect in pine! Nice job.

-- Don't anthropomorphize your handplanes. They hate it when you do that. -- OldTools Archive --

Thanks Tony,Olddrivers, Ivan,Mooseman and Smitty

Very nice. Oh, is your son’s name Jor-El ? ;-)

-- Lloyd Kerry; creator of the Kerry-All Pouch, http://www.kerrywoodworking.com

Thanks, Lloyd, my grandson is named “Kal-El”
Sorry didn’t get it at first Ha Ha

Nice toy box Jim. Pine is fine for anything you think is going to get used/destroyed. It’ll take a natural finish or paint, lower cost to use, and natural it really isn’t boring to look at. Beside with dovetails on the corners it looks expensive.

If you had not said anything about the hard carved plaque, I would have figured you had a CNC doing the work. Pretty correct for a first effort.

What did you guys do, make the young one wrap his own gift?

Thanks for posting

-- Think safe, be safe

Thanks, Steve,Ha ha, no we hid
e his gifts in the top box.

this toy box is amazing love the pine wood and the tails of course GREAT JOB :<)) Grandpa

-- Tony---- Reinholds,Pa.------ REMEMBER TO ALWAYS HAVE FUN

Thanks Tony, I’ve been a grampa for a long time.

Nice work, I like the look of the dovetails
I plan I’m making one for my grandson, just working on the design.