Andy Dingley wrote:

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 19:42:54 GMT, patriarch
wrote:

I'm working on a couple of similar arks/boxes.

I finished mine today. It's in the ammonia box tonight, then it'll
get some waxing tomorrow and be done. Photos sometime soon.

Do you know much about arks ? I've found very little documentation on
them and not many examples of them to go and study. Plenty of
flat-topped coffers or framed chests, but not many with the "ark" lid.

Any idea how they held the bases on ? I had to guess and did it by
two huge tenons in the end and sitting the edges of the base in
grooves in the sides.

Quite a fun thing to make. No machine tools, no measuring
instruments. I did the whole thing with a couple of chisels, one saw,
and a couple of planes.

--
Smert' spamionam

Do a google search of "medieval chests", or "viking woodworking" You'll
get a lot of good ideas on arks and similar chests.

--RC