Ernie,
I am looking at your “glass sided quilt display chest”, pg 93, “Treasure Chests”, and would like to ask you some questions.
At first it looked like post and rail construction, but now I think you used mitered corners with rails. Which method, or am I entirely wrong?
The bottom construction has me baffled! Please explain your method.
I made one of these for a lady, and hope to make others for the local quilting crowd. I routed a rabbit around the glued up rails and stiles, assembled the case and had the local glass man cut and set the glass. He used too much cement, leaving a thick bead. The picture looks like you cut grooves into the wood, dropped in the glass and assembled the piece. Please explain.
One last question: why didn’t you hinge the top to the case?
Beautiful work! I especially like the turned feet and the softened corners.
Thank you!
Pete
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The chest grew out of a magazine article I was asked to write about two decades ago. It had to be a project using biscuit joinery. My wife needed a chest to store quilts so I designed the display chest around biscuit construction. My mother also thought the idea was cool so I built three of them. It is composed of mitered cherry frames, biscuit jointed together with the largest biscuits (#20). The frames are subsequently screwed together in but joints with small dry wall screws. The glass is beveled plate and was expensive. I got it from a company that advertised in the back of FW in those days but I cannot recall who it was? (They were considerably cheaper than the local glass shop.) I held the glass in with quarter round splines that I held in place with wire nails. The top is recessed into the chest and does not have hinges because of the weight and the fact that the necessary stays would be visible through the glass. It is essentially a display case in the form of a chest.
With best regards,
Ernie Conover
Thank you again!
Pete
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