My Pen chest to beat all pen chests

[thomas.russell]

Yeah okay so eight years later I surf on in to this thread having Googled "pen chests" in the desperate hope of finding something worthwhile here in Australia. At the risk of repeating what pretty much everyone else has said:

1. Wow.
2. Sensational handiwork on your part to restore it to that conditions.
3. Great draw liners/dividers.
4. Totally green with envy right here. More of a Foliage Green than a Country Green.
5. The thread title is, I think, probably still pretty much spot on eight years later.

[warblerick]

Hi,

I didn't have the energy to read through all 3 pages of posts on your pen chest, but I didn't see anything regarding the type of wood it's made from. It is American Chestnut, in case you didn't know. Looks similar to oak, but the grain has many more swirls to it, but a similar color. It was used a lot around the turn of the 2oth century for ice boxes, some furniture and industrail things like this printing box, for its hardness and durability. One of my favorite woods (the chestnut was wiped out by blight by the early 1940's. If yours hasn't any tiny holes in it (from the blight) then the wood was milled prior to that , prob around 1900 or so.

 

I am a furniture restorere/refinisher by trade, and still se a lot of old chestnut (especially painted pieces--sad).

[Sasha Royale]

Lovely antique restoration !

 

If I ever demonstrated such skill (which I do not possess), my wife would never stop bothering me to fix stuff.

 

Dis you reserve a drawer for "spools"?