{"id":3120,"date":"2013-05-22T19:12:17","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T15:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inchscaled.com\/2013\/05\/blanket-chest-2\/"},"modified":"2014-12-25T21:33:52","modified_gmt":"2014-12-25T18:33:52","slug":"blanket-chest-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victoriamorozovaminiatures.com\/en\/2013\/05\/blanket-chest-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Blanket Chest"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been a fan of\u00a0 such old 17th century chests for quite\u00a0 a while, I’m reading several green woodworking blogs. So one day I thought it would be nice to make this blanket chest, besides I found the drawing of it in Sketchup Warehouse.<\/p>\n

Here it is:<\/p>\n

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As far as\u00a0 I know, the original was made in Massachusetts in 17th century, it was made with oak, but I used hardbeam wood for it. It has quite a small grain, and I think it gives a nice impression of oak. The only thing I didn’t like\u00a0 – the color, hardbeam is almost white, so it’s very hard to carve, you always need to change the direction of light to see what you are doing at all.<\/p>\n

The most interesting part here though was not carving – dowels were fun! The diameter was lot less than 1mm, so I had to make lots of small rods to fit.<\/p>\n

The only photo of WIP, very white \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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I love how good hardbeam can be stained and “damaged” – I wanted to make an old chest. So all the scratches were very easy to make \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I also made wooden hinges for the chest top, I saw several options for it, but decided to go with Sketchup drawing.<\/p>\n

Dowels, lots of them:<\/p>\n

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All the details, their joining etc. were copied from the original piece:<\/p>\n

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A sneak peak from inside:<\/p>\n

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The top:<\/p>\n

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A look from above:<\/p>\n

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To make it look old I used antique patina, and then covered it with couple of layers of shellac. Though\u00a0 I think I’ll add some more scratches later. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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