Blanketchest Completed [PICS]

[Ralph Okonieski]

Absolutely beautiful! The center mahogony stripe looks great. I understand your "disappointment" but it looks great this way. Very, very nice.

[George Bregar]

Mmmm through dovetails! Great chest.

[Greg Muller]

John,
You, sir, have a nice eye for beautiful wood!!
Can I ask you what the dimensions are and how you did the dovetails? Hand or jig?

I want to make a couple of those myself and am saving for the Akeda BC 24" for that purpose.

Greg

[Mike Cutler]

Very nice chest John. It's gorgeous. It goes really well with the bed.

[Jerry Casler]

great Blanket chest and bed John, my wife walked in when I was looking at that and said I want that, geez like I don't have enough honey do's going on. LOL

[Jim Becker]

Very nice...both the bed and the chest. And those animated "blankets" in the first picture are quite a special feature.... Great job!

[Carroll Courtney]

Now that is one nice matching set.Love that headboard and the curly maple and the mah. is a nice contrasting color.The girls looks like their having fun!

[Benjamin Dahl]

John, that is great. thanks for sharing.

[Dave Ray]

Great looking chest John, looks like the girls already claimed it for their own.

[Dave Chrudimsky]

Beautiful work. I was curious, though, what made you decide on the dimensions for the chest. As I was looking at the bed behind the chest, it felt like I wanted to see the blanket chest a bit longer and a little less wide to fit the bed better.

Please, don't take this as criticism. Your work is truly inspirational!

-chrud

[Claudio Olivas]

Excellent craftmanship John.

[Greg Just]

John:

Very nice - did you make the bed too?

[Jerry Olexa]

Good job....Nice detail, choice of material...looks very nice

[Thom Sturgill]

That's definitely one pretty bedroom set you got started. Makes me anxious to see what you do for the side tables & chests. (Bet your wife feels the same )

[John Hedges]

All,

Thanks for all the kind comments. The piece was a lot of fun to make but pales in comparison to a lot of the pieces I see here.

Bill,

That is exactly what my wife said about making 2 (one for each daughter) but the oldest daughter helps me in the shop (handles the planer outfeed and is getting pretty good with handplanes). So I guess this one will be hers and the next one will be her sisters.

Greg,

I made the bed for last years xmas present.'

Dave,

The dimensions are 45" wide x 22" deep x 21" tall. The wife made the call on the dimensions when I brought some pieces of MDF into the room and modeled some different dimensions and let her make the call.

Greg Muller,

I used a D4 to cut the dovetails (got the VRS which was very nice to keep things clean). I got the jig a few years ago knowing I was going to be eventually building this piece and needing the capacity.