http://www.binkyswoodworking.com/PiratesChest.html
Of course, if this was a real pirate's real treasure chest, it
probably wouldn't look this good, and he'd probably whip your landlubber
ass for messing with his treasure chest.
JOAT
Viet Nam. Divorce. Cancer. Been there, done that, got over it. Now
where the Hell are my T-shirts?
- JOAT
In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] says...
> http://www.binkyswoodworking.com/PiratesChest.html
>
> Of course, if this was a real pirate's real treasure chest, it
> probably wouldn't look this good, and he'd probably whip your landlubber
> ass for messing with his treasure chest.
>
I made one of these for my friends' kids 4th birthday, and it was
such a hit I had to make 4 more.
Never did find a really good way to batch-cut the 13 degree bevel
(or whatever it turned out to be) of the edges of the slats that
make up the domed lid. The first one I did on a stationary belt
sander, but it was hard to keep the angle consistent and generated
tons of dust. One the next 4, I rigged up a jig so I could cut
them on my router table (kind of like jointing on a router table,
but with a tilted platform to hold the slats.) This was much
faster, but a little awkward, and the jig wasn't adjustable.
(The slats are 1/4" by 3/4" by 11" long, with one lone edge
beveled. Much too small to cut safely on a table saw, at least
without some sort of jig or fixture to hold them securely.)
Maybe it would be easier with a good block plane. That's probably
how a 17th Century ship's carpenter would have done it. :-)
--
John
Mon, Nov 12, 2007, 12:29pm (EST+5) [email protected]
(John=A0Santos) doth sayeth:
<anip> Maybe it would be easier with a good block plane. That's probably
how a 17th Century ship's carpenter would have done it. :-)
I haven't thought this completely thru, haven't finished my first
cuppa. But seems to me, if you set your saw blade at the right angle,
you could cut a small strip off a piece of wood, to get the angle, then
flip the wood, cut a strip however wide, which would give the two angles
needed, then flip and cut another strip the proper width, repeat until
enough strips. ,There may be something wrong with doing it this way,
but my mind is still not awake enough fo figure out what it is yet.
JOAT
Viet Nam. Divorce. Cancer. Been there, done that, got over it. Now
where the Hell are my T-shirts?
- JOAT
In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] says...
> Mon, Nov 12, 2007, 12:29pm (EST+5) [email protected]
> (John Santos) doth sayeth:
> <anip> Maybe it would be easier with a good block plane. That's probably
> how a 17th Century ship's carpenter would have done it. :-)
>
> I haven't thought this completely thru, haven't finished my first
> cuppa. But seems to me, if you set your saw blade at the right angle,
> you could cut a small strip off a piece of wood, to get the angle, then
> flip the wood, cut a strip however wide, which would give the two angles
> needed, then flip and cut another strip the proper width, repeat until
> enough strips. ,There may be something wrong with doing it this way,
> but my mind is still not awake enough fo figure out what it is yet.
The original design calls for one edge of each strip to be square and
the other edge to be beveled at the appropriate angle to follow the
curve of the lid. I think you could split the angle in half and bevel
all the edges.
The 1st slat on each side is special, because the the lid starts out
with a square-cut slat finger-jointed at the ends to the not-quite-
semicircular sides of the lid. (The first 3/4 inch of the sides is
straight up and down, then the curved part is not tangent to the sides
so the angle is different.)
And the last slat (at the top) has to be pretty much hand-fitted to
the space between the last two slats coming up the sides. On mine,
it was very hard to keep the spacing even, so the last slat was a
crazy 3-dimensional trapezoid, and different on each chest! Well,
they look fine once they're planed and sanded to a smooth round
surface (on the outside.) The inside of the lid is a bunch of
disjoint flat slats, so it looks "rustic", which I decided was
perfectly appropriate for a Pirate Chest.
A fun project, made a bunch of little kids very happy. (I put a
little luggage style padlock on each one, so they all have the
illusion of privacy and security. However, it only took my niece
about 5 minutes to decide the most secure place to store the key
was inside the chest. Then it only took her about 10 seconds to
realize why that was a bad idea! Fortunately, I had a spare key!)
--
John