Thread: Coffin Plans

I'm sure this has been discussed previously, try a search on it and see what you come up with. I've seen coffins that are used as blanket box's until they;re ready for there real use..hahah..I've also been into a coffin manufacturing plant here in Brisi, let me tell you there ain't much work that goes into them, very very basic but look the part and cost an arm & a leg...(theres a joke there, but i'll leave it alone.. Mwahahaha! )

Allan,

I bought a book on the topic. Haven't really looked closely at the book and haven't made a coffin yet.

- Wood Borer

Wood Borer

What an interesting composition! Try plane in the background, a glass of red, and a book on do-it-yourself coffins. Mmm - is there a connection? The explanation could be fascinating.

Best regards from Perth

Derek

Derek,

You missed the following:

Tangle of electrical cords

Lack of dust control (Cyclone in the pipeline)

Asbestos shed wall

Radial Arm Saw

MDF on Radial Arm Saw

General haze of tobacco smoke

Cobwebs

On the healthier side, handcut (no jigs) drawer for my chisels their sharpness would make clean cuts.

Am I in good shape?


- Wood Borer

Wood Borer

Anyone who keeps their chisels sharp in a handcut drawer gets my vote for mental health.

Best regards from Perth

Derek

SWMBO told me the book is available from Borders Bookshops. I ordered mine from the US a couple of years ago.

Below is a better photo of my chisel drawer. Old photo - my new good chisels are now in this drawer (resting on felt covered blackwood supports of course). The old chisels are in another drawer to the right.

Thanks for the saneworthy Derek.

- Wood Borer

Now of course you could use a coffin as a drawer for those long clamps, and don't worry about the dust in the workshop, the cobwebs grab a fair amount of it thus saving you lungs.
The redback inhabitants could be a health problem though.

Thanks, Wood Borer.
Where is Borders Bookshops?
Cheers, Allan

Allan,

They are franchised but the nearest one to you I could find in the White Pages was in Carlton.

380 Lygon St Carlton 3053

Ph 03) 9348 0222



- Wood Borer

Everybody feeling a little maudlin or fatalistic or something?

Maybe someone could start a thread calling for plans/patterns/designs for urns for ashes? Nothing maudlin or fatalistic really, just healthy, balanced acceptance of the inevitability of the finiteness of our current being.

Mick

Several years ago there was a post here from Hawaii looking for a blackwood supplier. When I put the enquirer in touch with a bloke in Tassie, he got back to me to say his business was making cremation urn boxes. Very nice ones they were, too, with info about the occupant laser engraved.

Not morbid, just thinking of saving a bob for the ones left behind but in the meantime having a good excuse to purchase more tools and timber.

As I expect to be doing woodwork for at least another 30 years or more, it is only fair that I get these tools now so they will get plenty of use.

Now the joints on the coffin. Can you imagine your woodworking mates looking closely at the dovetails on the coffin during the wake. Best make the box before I become some old fuddy duddy.

- Wood Borer

Hi All
I'm not morbid either, just that a few years ago my father in law died, what a muck up.
I mean apart from him clocking off, every one was argueing and bickering about which box to get for him.
Of course the funeral ppl made everyone feel bad because we didnt pick the dearest one for him.
The one they settled for, ONLY cost $3000.
What, for $200 of material tops.
So...I figure I'll get in first, and beat the bastards at their own game.
I like the post about all your woodwork mates checking out the workmanship.........lol.

Cheers, Al