Painted Pine Blanket Box
This blanket box is made of furniture-grade
white pine. As best I can determine, this term is synonymous with overpriced and of rather bad quality but by the time I
bought it, it was too late to back out. This item was made with the wood left over from another project that was done as a gift for
a friend and itself served no other purpose than practice.
The box is joined at all
corners with through-dovetail joints although the covering of barn red milk paint obscures them. The interior was given a
thin wash of federal blue milk paint and a coating of clear shellac. The lid was has two simple screwed-on oak battens to
stiffen and stabilize it. Overall size in inches: 37X17X26.