Hickory And Ashblanket Chest

摘要

When thumbing through furniture books, I find myself drawn to long, low chests, similar to the wooden chests my folks had in our living room when I was a kid. So when I was invited to participate as a guest artist in the New Hampshire Furniture Masters Association's 2008 auction, a blanket chest was one of the three proposals I submitted, and this is the piece the jury chose. To present my proposal, I offered scaled drawings that gave top, front, and end views. The process of drawing usually lets my mind walk through the fabrication so that I'm sure the piece will work. Everything comes off the drawings. When things get tricky, like angled or intricate joinery, I go back to them, laying pieces right on the full-size drawings to physically check measurements and angles. I did full-sizers of the leg blank and the ends, and to be extra sure I made story sticks to lay out the frames and panels.