http://www.minwax.com/build/intermediate/blanketchest/

AND, you can use it for a baby bed, until the kid outgrows it. LOL

The title of this raises many questions. Do they mean it's New
England style. Or it's new and England style. Maybe it was bought new
IN England. Does it "have" to be made from just pine? And if so, is it
restricted only to pine from New England? Or, because it's new, are
they thinking pine from England? What about southern pine? Would it be
a southern pine blanket chest then? Or, maybe a new southern pine
blanket chest. I take it on faith they won't get your name and address
from you looking at it, and track you down to see if you actually made
one, and if you did was it actually used for just blankets, let alone
the rest of the stuff. I just wish people would make themselves clear
when they post.



JOAT
EVERY THING THAT HAPPENS STAYS HAPPENED.
- Death

On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 08:19:50 -0500, (J T)
wrote:

The title of this raises many questions. Do they mean it's New
England style.

The style of "New England". It's the cross-over between a 14th
century construction style (colonies are always a century or two
behind fashion) and the availability of big wide boards. You can make
these in the 17th century coastal colonies, but by the time settlement
had moved West, techniques had moved on.

America seems to have skipped over the clamp-fronted chest design that
was used in England. The first settlers made these pre-tudor 6 board
chests because they're so simple, then the established cabinetmakers
went straight to complex Jacobean styles with full framing. This took
a long time in England because it was a technical development, but in
America it was just a question of having the time (surfeit of turkey /
shortage of bears) to make a style you'd learned as an apprentice back
in the old country.

Bubba, you be quirky, but I like it.

jim


J T wrote:
http://www.minwax.com/build/intermediate/blanketchest/

AND, you can use it for a baby bed, until the kid outgrows it. LOL

The title of this raises many questions. Do they mean it's New
England style. Or it's new and England style. Maybe it was bought new
IN England. Does it "have" to be made from just pine? And if so, is it
restricted only to pine from New England? Or, because it's new, are
they thinking pine from England? What about southern pine? Would it be
a southern pine blanket chest then? Or, maybe a new southern pine
blanket chest. I take it on faith they won't get your name and address
from you looking at it, and track you down to see if you actually made
one, and if you did was it actually used for just blankets, let alone
the rest of the stuff. I just wish people would make themselves clear
when they post.



JOAT
EVERY THING THAT HAPPENS STAYS HAPPENED.
- Death

"J T" wrote in message
...
http://www.minwax.com/build/intermediate/blanketchest/

AND, you can use it for a baby bed, until the kid outgrows it. LOL

The title of this raises many questions. Do they mean it's New
England style. Or it's new and England style. Maybe it was bought new
IN England. Does it "have" to be made from just pine? And if so, is it
restricted only to pine from New England? Or, because it's new, are
they thinking pine from England? What about southern pine? Would it be
a southern pine blanket chest then? Or, maybe a new southern pine
blanket chest. I take it on faith they won't get your name and address
from you looking at it, and track you down to see if you actually made
one, and if you did was it actually used for just blankets, let alone
the rest of the stuff. I just wish people would make themselves clear
when they post.



JOAT
EVERY THING THAT HAPPENS STAYS HAPPENED.
- Death

It sure looks like Dunbar's blanket chest featured in FWW a while back.. :-)

"J T" wrote in message
...
http://www.minwax.com/build/intermediate/blanketchest/

AND, you can use it for a baby bed, until the kid outgrows it. LOL

The title of this raises many questions. Do they mean it's New
England style. Or it's new and England style. Maybe it was bought new
IN England. Does it "have" to be made from just pine? And if so, is it
restricted only to pine from New England? Or, because it's new, are
they thinking pine from England? What about southern pine? Would it be
a southern pine blanket chest then? Or, maybe a new southern pine
blanket chest. I take it on faith they won't get your name and address
from you looking at it, and track you down to see if you actually made
one, and if you did was it actually used for just blankets, let alone
the rest of the stuff. I just wish people would make themselves clear
when they post.



JOAT
EVERY THING THAT HAPPENS STAYS HAPPENED.
- Death


Surely, its a "New England" Chest for storing your Pine Blankets. (And no,
I'm not calling you Surely, JT)
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FMB
(only one B in FMB)