Three Little Chests: Building Boarded Boxes

By Ron Aylor

Three Little Chests walks the reader through the building of boarded boxes based on the six-board chest design. Join Ron Aylor as he creates three unique boarded boxes in his unplugged workshop.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ron Aylor
• Release date: Aug 30, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005445317

Ron Aylor

Ron Aylor, a resident of Lilburn, Georgia, is an unplugged woodworker. Without electricity and using traditional edged tools, he specializes in 17th-century mannerist carving and Colonial American furniture. The bulk of his work is of 17th-century style joined stools, carved boxes, tables, and bookstands. This work follows techniques and methods from the period. Ash, cherry, pine, poplar, maple, and walnut are his timber of choice.

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Contents

Cover

Title Page

Introduction

Little Pine Chest

A Thistle in Walnut

Meandering

Bibliography

Copyright

Acknowledgments

About Author

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Introduction

Since time immemorial, man has been accumulating things. And since then, there has been the need to keep his things safe. Safe from prying eyes, safe from the elements. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, wooden boxes and chests of all shapes and sizes stored man's valuables, clothing, and food.

Perhaps the most common household chest design is what is known as a six-board or boarded chest. Joining at right angles (which most woodworkers consider a dreadful mistake), the construction is quite simple: six flat boards making up the front, back, bottom, sides, and lid. Unlike the wooden box with its carcase parts in the same plane and bottom attached with nails, the