Wooden Chest: A premium wooden chest I built and constructed out of pine wood using a woodworking process called "joinery" which is completed by creating "joints" or puzzle piece cuts into the wood to shape the wood together into unique shapes and sizes. Since routers (a woodworking machine) don't usually come with custom table tops for joinery (besides specific sized jigs for specific routers), I built my own table top mechanism to be able to slide the pieces of wood for the chest back and forth to create the "joints" or square cuts/shapes into the wood to eventually "join" them together via the shapes and secure them via wood glue and finishing nails for extra security and protection.
Shown above are physical ideation, prototyping, and process photos of me building and constructing the chest using joinery techniques, a table saw, mitre (chop) saw, vice grip clamps, t-squares, levels, and more tools.
Shown above are pictures of the completed chest. After purchasing a black-colored metal latch and hinges from Home Depot, I screwed them in with a screwdriver and secured them with a drill, and then I had a finished product. The goal of this project was to improve both my physical and mental ideation and prototyping skills and to create a product that was premium and made with hard work and quality that would be noticed among consumers. While I know a wooden chest is commonly found among many retail stores and online, this product was built and constructed manually by hand with premier craftsmanship, ingenuity, and heart by me, Nick Montesano, in an attempt to prove to consumers that hard work and craftsmanship still exists among retail products on the market today.
Wooden utensils crafted, carved, and oil stained for cooking, by Nick Montesano.
