rear view joined chest
Got some photography done the other day…this one’s a joined chest that I have had around a while. I was waiting to hinge it until I could photograph the process. This is the one with the wooden hinges. Here’s the front view
joined chest
You can see this chest in process during the Lie-Nielsen video I did on making a joined chest. http://pfollansbee.wordpress.com/2012/11/26/new-dvd-is-back-again-make-an-oak-joined-chest/
First the wooden hinge; then the interior view, with the till.
wooden hinge
till
Finishing up a couple of customer’s boxes at the same time…
January 23, 2013 at 7:07 am
I like the way the beveled edges of the center rails terminate on an unbeveled section of the stiles whose bevels in turn terminate on unbeveled long rail sections. It really pulls my eye along the contours.
Do you chisel the lambs tongue first then bevel to it? or some other process? thanks!
January 23, 2013 at 8:04 am
(I think i have “rails” and “stiles” reversed)
January 23, 2013 at 10:13 pm
Still very uneasy about knobs on ends of pintel hinge pins but I guess I can prove they’re a-historical either. But the raking light pics are great! I am recommending that the Winterthur conservation students study the Dedham-Medfield chest in the Delaware Room (that pine sheathing closet) very closely.
January 26, 2013 at 9:00 am
They do look Smurf-ish as we once said about some stuff we didn’t like!
January 26, 2013 at 8:00 pm
Or maybe now you say “The Shire-ish.” You know some guy in California paid all these craftspeople to replicate a Hobbit house? Man,
January 26, 2013 at 7:54 pm
Looking great Peter!
January 29, 2013 at 6:14 pm
Great work1
January 29, 2013 at 11:26 pm
Great looking work Peter!
April 27, 2013 at 9:54 am
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