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This is the Hope chest that I made for my daughter this Christmas. I am very please with the results. It is made from wide sapele. The top is only two seperate boards and the glue line all but disappears in the grain. The sides and ends were curved using with the curved planing jig that I...

This is a 3 drawer gentleman's chest of Peruvian walnut and cherry. The case is constructed with handcut dovetails. The drawers are coopered and feature drawer slips with sliding housed dovetails and through dovetails. Finish is BLO and a handrubbed Daly's Pro Fin. www.wrightwoodworks.com

This is a Wedding Wine Advice Well Wishes Box that I made for my son and his bride. The box has a coopered lid which has a slot cut in it for wedding guests to write notes to the newlyweds. The box is made of purpleheart (her favorite color and the main color of the wedding), and is constructed...

Built this for my daughter over a weekend. Coopered lid, made from poplar and pine scraps. Inset hinges/lock. Finished with dye - gel stain - poly. Daughter and I beat it with sticks, keys, rocks, etc to get a worn look, she loved that part! Made a hand built, removable till inside that...

My parents asked me to make them a new rural delivery mailbox. I have had the idea kicking around in my head for a while of one I wanted to make, so I jumped at the chance. I wanted to do one with a rounded coopered top. Never having done it before, I set out with a spruce 2×4 to build a...

My wife volunteered me to build a blanket chest for the schools charity gala event :blink: She said it had to look like the treasure chest from last year, but larger…. and the top had to be the same, but no shiny brass hardware this time and I had to put the nails in it again…. :blink: I asked...

I recently finished constructing a hand tool box with coopered half lids and four drawers. Plans: Article by Pat Curci; American Woodworker February 1999. Material: Solid Cherry, Cherry Plywood, Brass hardware. Random scraps of maple and walnut for the drawer boxes. Finish: Minwax Clear...

I made this jewelry box for my wife. It is made with cherry, spalted white oak, maple, and spalted mahogany. The lid was coopered with a "round plane" I fashioned from grinding down the iron of an old transitional plane and shaping it's wooden sole to match to an even curve. I went through...

This is one of a group of proto types the black is soot from my wood stove it is finished with poly. It was coopered then carved.

This piece is actually works and is the first of several sound experiments.

Features: Cherry Coopered lid Decorative hand-cut dovetails

The second wide flange experiment. Here I was also toying with the idea of using pieces right side up or upside down. It turned out a pritty cool experiment because it looks completely different from upside down to right side up. So if a person wants to redecorate the display case just turn it...

This Pacific yew chest was included in Taunton's 2011 book titled Blanket Chests, authored by Peter S. Turner and Scott Gibson. It measures 36" x 21" x 17" high. The lid was coopered and features a void between two live edges that serves as a handle. The lower half of the chest wass carved to...