Over the past few months I've been working on and off on a blanket chest/tack trunk for LOML to store all of her horse blankets and such in.
I was derailed for about six weeks due to a hellacious work schedule. I've finally had a chance to get back to it, so it for all intensive purposes finished. ( The bright lights ,and camera revealed a few areas that neede a little touching up).
The chest is a copy of the frame and panel chest that appears in the book "In the Craftsman Style" by John McAlevey, and featured on pages 96-103. The author provided more than enough detail to replicate his original work. The chest I built deviates only in size, and the joinery at the legs. I utilized double though tenons, that were shouldered and haunched into the posts. They were subsequently pinned through from both sides. Other than that, the original was a beautiful piece, and I certainly couldn't improve on it.
The materials in the chest are a wenge frame, with brazillian cherry panels, and a spanish cedar interior.