Greetings & Salutations,
I have been making 2 cherry cedar chests, one for my granddaughter's
high school graduation and the other I have sold.
I just got a coat of Seal-A-Cell on them today but just with that
they turned out pretty good.
These chests have 3 drawers each and I changed from the first
one I made and made the drawers out of cedar partly because I thought
it would make a nice contrast and give a little more cedar aroma and partly because I was running very short on Cherry. Wonder what partly
was the chief factor.
The sides of the main box are all dovetailed along with the riser at the
bottom. The drawer section has 45 degree miters at the back corners and
a 1/8 inch tongue and groove top and bottom along with the drawer dividers. The drawers are also all made using thru dovetails as well.
This is the first project that I have used Seal-A-Cell and Arm-R-Seal
as a finish but I figure if it's good enough for David Marks then by golly it
sure is good enough for me.
Here the chests are this morning before I applied any finish.
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Got them all apart and one coat of Seal-A-Cell on now.
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The inside of the main box.
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Thanks for checking them out.
Gene