> On Jun 21, 2020, at 3:17 PM, Ken Wright via OldTools  wrote:
> 
> Most of the tills in chests on the Mary Rose appear to have 90 degree
> corners.  I spent a fair amount of time trying to figure out how to cut
> angled housings!


Ken

The Vasa is 1628, within spitting distance of the Mary Rose.  When that ship
came up, an officer’s hat in a box looked just like it was in a hat store.
There was clothing, games, tools, everythiin that would be an a big warshio
leaving the dock ready for battle.  The main t’gallnt sale (third one up, main
mast) was folded in the sail locker, tied with cord, and when they unrolled it,
it was perfect - it is now hagnging on the wall of the museum and you can see
the handwork - it is almost identical in dimension to the the Kalmar Nyckel’s
main tops’l (second one up, main mast, smaller boat), so we could copy it.

Here is a video (in Swedish) showing a tour of the warehouse where they store
thousands of recovered items - maube a chest in there:

https://www.facebook.com/Vasamuseet/videos/290736838763442/UzpfSTgxOTg4
MzgzNDpWSzoyNzYzODEzMjgwNTE0MTEx/">https://www.facebook.com/Vasamuseet/videos/29
0736838763442/UzpfSTgxOTg4MzgzNDpWSzoyNzYzODEzMjgwNTE0MTEx/

And I built a non-90° small box to store some rigging demo pieces in - a piece
of Purpleheart and Douglas Fir to show the contrast beteen the two as they were
used on the boat, a piece of standing rigging that had been wormed, parceled,
and served, a block, various sizes of spikes, etc.  I copied one on the Vasa
only mine was 18” wide instad of about 30”.  Here is the top that finally got
replaced after about 12-13 years because it was not sufficiently quarter sawn to
stop a lot of curling:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ruby1638/50030406443/in/dateposted-
public/">https://www.flickr.com/photos/ruby1638/50030406443/in/dateposted-
public/ <https://www.flickr.com/photos/ruby1638/50030406443/in
/dateposted-public/">https://www.flickr.com/photos/ruby1638/50030406443/in
/dateposted-public/>

I like your chest a lot

Ed Minch