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  • Ken Massingale
    Veteran Member
    • Dec 2002
    • 3862
    • Liberty, SC, USA.
    • Ridgid TS3650
    #1

    Simple Pine/Maple Chest

    The MIL asked for a simple light colored chest to use as a 'coffee table'.It is 16" high and 30" long. The pine is White Pine resawn from 8/4 stock that Ken Weaver and I bought a while back. It is from upstate New York, harvested around 15 years ago. The top is spalted Ambrosia Maple.The finish is Amber Shellac, best I remember, around 8 coats. I have never had so much trouble putting finish on a project, and I really don't know why it was such hassle. I sanded it back to bare wood twice and finally got a finish I would accept, but not one I'll brag about.It ain't fancy like I prefer to do, but she wanted simple.Thanks for looking.
    Ken

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    • Tundra_Man
      Veteran Member
      • Jan 2003
      • 1589
      • Sioux Falls, SD, USA.
      • Ryobi BT3100
      #2
      Nice! Love those box joints and the top.
      Terry

      Life's too short to play an ordinary guitar: Tundra Man Custom Guitars

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        • bigsteel15
          Veteran Member
          • Feb 2006
          • 1079
          • Edmonton, AB
          • Ryobi BT3100
          #3
          Nice Top!!

          Love the top. It really offsets the simplicity of the chest.
          LOML has been bugging to finish (start) the toy/hope chest for my daughter that I have the pine panels bought for over a year now.
          I like the top on yours and may have to fancy it up a little for my daughter.
          Brian

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          Where corporal punishment is alive and well.

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            • Pappy
              The Full Monte
              • Dec 2002
              • 10453
              • San Marcos, TX, USA.
              • BT3000 (x2)
              #4
              Nice work, Ken. Would have looked cool if you had matced the ends with the knots in the handle area!
              Don, aka Pappy,

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              Fools because they have to say something.
              Plato

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                • Whaler
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                  • Dec 2002
                  • 3281
                  • Sequim, WA, USA.
                  • DW746
                  #5
                  Great job Ken.
                  Dick

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                    • John Hunter
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                      • Dec 2004
                      • 2034
                      • Lake Station, IN, USA.
                      • BT3000 & BT3100
                      #6
                      Very Nice! Love the way the maple top sets it off.
                      John Hunter

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                        • GPA61
                          Senior Member
                          • Sep 2004
                          • 709
                          • Rancho Cucamonga, CA
                          • BT 3100 & JET JWTS
                          #7
                          Great work as usual Ken. You say it's simple, I say it's beautiful!!
                          Last edited by GPA61; 04-07-2006, 08:53 PM.
                          Claudio

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                            • Crash2510
                              Senior Member
                              • Feb 2006
                              • 830
                              • North Central Ohio
                              #8
                              the top is great very nice
                              Phil In Ohio
                              The basement woodworker

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                                • Wood_workur
                                  Veteran Member
                                  • Aug 2005
                                  • 1914
                                  • Ohio
                                  • Ryobi bt3100-1
                                  #9
                                  Nice. Like to bookmatched sides, the box joints, and the top. That maple is beautiful.
                                  Alex

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                                    • mater
                                      Veteran Member
                                      • Jan 2004
                                      • 4197
                                      • SC, USA.
                                      #10
                                      That is very nice Ken and as usual very good work.
                                      Ken aka "mater"

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                                        • Popeye
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                                          • Mar 2003
                                          • 1848
                                          • Woodbine, Ga
                                          • Grizzly 1023SL
                                          #11
                                          That's top shelf all the way Ken. Beautiful job. Pat
                                          Woodworking is therapy.....some of us need more therapy than others. <ZERO>

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                                            • bigstick509
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                                              • Dec 2004
                                              • 1227
                                              • Macomb, MI, USA.
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                                              #12
                                              Very Nice


                                              Mike

                                              "It's not the things you don't know that will hurt you, it's the things you think you know that ain't so." - Mark Twain

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                                                • lrogers
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                                                  • Dec 2002
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                                                  • Mobile, AL. USA.
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                                                  #13
                                                  Yeah, what they all said! Ken, that top and box jointed corners are awesome.
                                                  Larry R. Rogers
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                                                    • 9johnny5
                                                      Established Member
                                                      • Mar 2005
                                                      • 179
                                                      • Orange Park, FL
                                                      • BT3100
                                                      #14
                                                      Very nice Ken!

                                                      I think that if you'd have made it more "fancy", the beauty of the top would have been lost. I like the contrast of the dark streaks in the spalted maple against the color of the knotty pine. Simplicity is often the best route.

                                                      johnny
                                                      not exactly Norm...al

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                                                        • Ken Massingale
                                                          Veteran Member
                                                          • Dec 2002
                                                          • 3862
                                                          • Liberty, SC, USA.
                                                          • Ridgid TS3650
                                                          #15
                                                          Thanks for the comments, folks. I appreciate them.
                                                          The MIL liked it so that's more important than the trouble I had applying the finish. Still, I am glad to see it gone.
                                                          Thanks again,
                                                          ken

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