How Do You Build A Simple Treasure Chest?
Whether for the little pirate, or for your own safe storage, a simple wooden treasure chest can be built in an afternoon with some common tools and inexpensive lumber. Here are some steps to show you how it’s done. • Plan the size of your chest. The one built in this project is 11 inches wide, 9 inches tall (excluding the top) and 16 inches long (28 x 23 x 41 cm). • Gather the lumber you will use. Here, we used 1 X 10 (19 mm × 235 mm) scrap maple lumber which had been stained and lacquered, then thrown in a construction site dumpster. For the size in the illustrations, an eight foot (2.4 m) long board and some odd scraps were used. • Tools and lumber on makeshift table Set up a table to do the assembly on. Two saw horses and a sheet of plywood works fine, but a heavy workbench would be better. • Rabbet cut, before removing cut out piece. Get the tools out, making sure the circular saw has a sharp blade. There are some rabbets[1] to cut for joining the corners, and a sharp blade will ma
