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Quick six board chest

kirkpoore1

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A friend came over this morning and wanted to build a chest. He wanted a hutch-type chest, but didn’t have quite enough wood. When I also explained what was involved, and pointed out that his boards weren’t quite wide enough for his drawing, he scaled back his desires and we built this instead. I talked him into including the small till, built with a couple pieces from my scrap bin. Anyway, after an hour of discussion, four hours of work, and an hour of lunch, I sent him home with this, ready for paint.

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Kirk
 
That pine looks about 12" or even 14" wide. I've not seen a 1" board that wide in a timber merchants here, ever.
 
I agree with Andy. Nice design touch and a very quick and simple job.

Mike - some Merchants sell down here sell pine in slab. So you can get very wide boards out of it, but with cupping risk. Obviously there is a lot of waste, but one way or another we pay for the waste anyway.
 
Mike G":2i02kx5e said:
That pine looks about 12" or even 14" wide. I've not seen a 1" board that wide in a timber merchants here, ever.
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They were kiln-dried 1x12's (actual measurements 11-1/4" x 3/4"). He got them at a specialty wood place, not a local lumber yard. I'm sure they weren't cheap--nothing in that place is.
https://www.stcharleshardwoods.com/
The species was Ponderosa pine.

The only screws were holding the hinges on--he had the wrong size hinges to wrap them onto the top, so we had to put them on the inside surface. Everything else was 1-1/2" cut nails.

Kirk
 
Of course Kirk, sorry. Impossible to see from here but from your past projects I should have realised they were nails.
 
Andyp":349a34te said:
Of course Kirk, sorry. Impossible to see from here but from your past projects I should have realised they were nails.
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No reason to apologize--the pic was indistinct. But if we'd used screws, I would have countersunk them and then plugged and sanded the holes. I really don't like screw heads showing if I can help it.

Kirk
 
Mike G said:
That pine looks about 12" or even 14" wide. I've not seen a 1" board that wide in a timber merchants here, ever.
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I'd use glued up boards 1" thick sawn and then plane / PT down to 3/4".
 
I recall wide Ponderosa Pine boards when working at a timber merchants in Henley-on-Thames in the 60's but maybe not quite 12" wide.
 
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