Mission Blanket Chest
If you love
Mission-style
furniture, here’s
the perfect
complement to
your bedroom.
By Tom Caspar
Store blankets, bedding and memories inside this huge chest. Three frames and a plywood back make up its basic structure, and all the other parts are added on, one by one, so building it is about as easy as making frame-and panel doors with a router table. One do-it-all router bit cuts virtually every joint and another basic bit adds a design element that saves a ton of work. This story also contains an entire section devoted to showing how to make and install the distinctive butterfly inlay. |
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Assemble the |
Rout a v-shaped |
Glue the butterfliesCut the corners of the recess with a chisel or Spread a thin layer of glue in the recess, put in |
Stain all the panels |
Glue the case |
Add the ledge |
Attach the hinge to |
Stain the entire |
This story originally appeared in American Woodworker March 2003, issue #99. |
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