We’ve just received our stock of the “Six Board Chest” DVD I shot with Lie-Nielsen in 2012. It’s my second “long-form” DVD at 120 minutes long and is focused as much on the techniques as the chest itself. And there are mistakes and fixes galore.
This style of chest is one of the pieces in my next book, “Furniture of Necessity.”
The official DVD description:
Six-board chests have been a part of human culture for centuries. And while building them is no mystery, building them quickly and entirely by hand is a window into the pre-industrial woodworker’s mindset.
Constructing a six-board chest is a good introduction to working efficiently with hand tools and quickly understanding that hand woodworking is very dissimilar to machine woodworking. Different things are important. And the order of operations is critical.
In July 2012, I spent a week at the Lie-Nielsen Toolworks shops filming this DVD on building a six-board chest using sugar pine. Like the “Build a Shaker Side Table” DVD, this was shot in real time with me narrating every operation. And narrating every mistake and every fix.
As a result, this DVD isn’t merely about the steps to build the chest. During the 120 minutes I cover stock dimensioning, panel flattening, cutting curves, making rabbets and dado and nails. There’s a bit on miters, hand-cut moulding and milk paint as well.
If you are at the beginning stages of woodworking or switching to hand-tool woodworking, I think you will find this DVD useful.
The DVD also includes a short glossary and a SketchUp file of the six-board chest that illustrates the construction steps.
The DVD is $40 and is available in the Lost Art Press store here or at Lie-Nielsen Toolworks.
— Christopher Schwarz
Mine arrived four or so days ago. Can’t wait to view it.