Beer Coffin

A great way to store your alcoholic (or non alcoholic) consumables for a hallowe'en party

Step 1 Making your coffin - the base

We used 90mm x 35mm MGP10 pine for this - yes, decking pine. We wanted something big and bulky that could take the weight and last. Looking back, I'd probably use other material, but we were mostly doing this to see if we could :D

I don't have a picture, but first off I made a full-sized template of the coffin and laid it across seven pieces of wood. The template was then traced onto the wood, and it was cut to size

(you can see here where I stuffed up the side - unfortunately at the time all we had was a fixed mitre saw and a jig saw. The jig slipped a bit, but it's easily covered by the walls)

We made this coffin to a 1.5 metre length, with 350mm across the head, 600mm across the chest, and 320mm across the foot:

<--350mm-->
<-------600mm------->
<-320mm->

What you can't see in the picture is the three bracing struts - one across the head (inset about 80mm) , one across the chest, and one set across the foot (inset about 160mm) These were screwed straight across all boards.

Comments

[tinker234]

wow i like this idea i was wondering if theres a way to make on look like it is escaping

[crackjr]

prity cool it will go good with my coffin bed

[l8nite]

We made a coffin out of plywood to use as a door for our haunted house and storage for some halloween stuff
http://good-times.webshots.com/album/555209299KiuHui

maybe we need one for drinks!! hmmmm maybe use rigid foam insulation and caulk... ideas ideas ideas.......