Latest project finished

[NA4BH]

My daughter bought an old trunk at a yard sale for $5.00. It had been painted some god awful color and was in need of either burning or throwing in the landfill. I looked at it and thought this would be a great project that should relatively easy to complete, wrong. After starting the dismantling I saw how much this thing has been neglected and abused through the years. So I ordered some canvas for the outside and attached it to the shell with a high powered glue. I then found some old-timey shellac and painted it on the canvas, hoping to give it an old look. That worked pretty good. The wood of the shell was very dry and brittle so I had to be very careful pulling the 10,000 original nails that were bent over on their points for a secure hold. I ordered some copper nails to accent the hardware and also to hold the leather strips that I put on the corners. The strips on the top are cherry that my father gave me and on the inside there is some mahogany strips that I had. I finally decided to put cedar on the inside so it could be used for storage of blankets and other stuff.

So after about a year of working on this thing, it's finally finished. I would cuss it everytime I would start on it, "Why didn't you let her paint it"? Now that it's done, I already miss working on it.

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[NQ6U]

Is the cedar there to keep the moths out of the radios you plan on storing in the thing?

[KG4CGC]

AWESOME THING, BOB! w00t!

[w2amr]

Congrats, Nice job Bob. :clap:

[WØTKX]

Perfect for antique blankets, shawls, doilies, and quilts. Betcha gots some, dontcha Bob? :mrgreen:

[NA4BH]

This is my daughters trunk. She has a number of quilts that her grandmother made for her and other stuff for cold weather. We have a lot of "Grandma made" quilts too, but they don't have a specified place to be stored. I guess I need to make one for us.

CRAP, here we go again. LOL.

[WØTKX]

Here ya go... http://mobile.craigslist.org/fuo/5100783310.html

[K4PIH]

Nice job. Give up radio and take up restoration.

[K7SGJ]

Nice job Bob. I'll be glad when I can get back to my woodworking. I have a bunch of things in progress as well as in the planning stages. I love making sawdust.

[X-Rated]

That is really nice, Bob. Great job.

[kb2vxa]

Nice work, really great job. When I was a plant electrician in a custom kitchen shop with all the woodworking tools at my disposal I made this little box for my important papers, but you did it 100 times over. Just one question, I've never seen a canvas covered chest before so why did you do it? Was it so brittle a nice cedar veneer with sprayed on clear lacquer wouldn't do? BTW the box is luan plywood sprayed with medium pine stain and sprayed again with clear lacquer that was shiny about 30 years ago.

[NA4BH]

The wood was very brittle, almost at the point of "powdering" with any forceful contact. I bought some sheer muslin cloth for the inside, but that wouldn't do, so very thin cedar was the next choice. As far as the canvas on the outside, it was used for reinforcement. I shellacked it for more firmness/support. The cedar on the inside has not finish on it, so that a sanding will bring the cedar smell back out.

[kb2vxa]

Oh, I kinda figured there was a reason for a large, rigid canvas sack that smells like cedar. (;->)