{"id":963,"date":"2022-09-28T22:57:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T03:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/?p=963"},"modified":"2025-09-01T10:38:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T15:38:29","slug":"mark-2-14th-century-toolchest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/mark-2-14th-century-toolchest\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark 2 14th Century Toolchest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Took a second swing at this project. Here it is up on sawhorses in my workshop\/garage:<\/p>\n\n\n

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14th Century Japanese Toolchest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

It’s huge! It’s 4.5 feet long and a foot wide. It fits in the trunk of my car ok if I fold the rear seats down, but it’s way too big. Probably at fault is my desire to use 1by8 for the sides. To keep the length in proportion to the height it’s just way too long. Maybe I’ll try again sometime with 1by6 instead. That would make it only about 40 inches long by my reckoning. Compare the image below with the original painting<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Toolchest with Lid Askew<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I’m also pretty sure I should be making my battens narrower, and probably from the full 3\/4″ thickness of board instead of my 1\/2″ planed-down thickness. As a bonus, here is an image of all the tools I needed to construct this Mark 2 chest, stored in the Mark 1:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Tools to Make a Toolchest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

There’s not much you need, really, to build a simple chest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Took a second swing at this project. Here it is up on sawhorses in my workshop\/garage: It’s huge! It’s 4.5 feet long and a foot wide. It fits in the trunk of my car ok if I fold the rear seats down, but it’s way too big. Probably at fault is my desire to use […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,178,288,20,31],"tags":[268,8,32,603,23],"class_list":["post-963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japanese","category-projects","category-tools","category-use","category-woodworking-japanese","category-woodworking-projects","tag-boxes","tag-japanese","tag-projects","tag-toolchest","tag-woodworking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":964,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions\/964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}