I lost my mind, so I thought I'd make a Final Fantasy X treasure chest from scratch. Crazy. Anyway, here's what I did. The first step was of course trying to find as many pictures as I could. Google has crap. Luckily I was playing FFX at the time so I took pictures of game screens. Still there is no perfect picture.
Well, that's the best I got. So I went and got some cedar 1x8s from the Lowes, cut them to length, and then glued them together to make the sides about 14" high. With 4 sides put together I made a 1/4" groove ( dado ) about 1" from the bottom. This is for the 1/4" luon I cut out for the bottom of the chest. The bottom gets put into that groove while the four sides are glued together to make the basic box.
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Gluing the sides together. Nice to have lots of clamps.
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| The 4 sides with dado's cut, and the luon bottom. |
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Gluing the box together with the bottom in place.
There you have a nice basic box. Lots of sanding then ensues. This is the first step and I thought it turned out well, but there is so much more. I think I made it to tall relative to the length and width. It's going to end up taller than it should be, but there is a limit to how big I want it to be. I do want to take it to cons. Next time, HA HA HA, I'll make it shorter and longer, not wider. Next working on the top. |
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