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Make your own treasure chest

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"Make your own treasure chest" gives you the complete step-by-step instructions for 13 different woodworking projects. Make a pirate's treasure chest, a box with a hidden inlay, a hide-a-key box and much more. All projects come from Instructables.com, are written by our creative community, and contain pictures for each step so you can easily make these yourself.

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Pirate's treasure chest by makendo

Hidden Treasure Box - Inlaid Wood Box with Hidden Compart… by technoplastique

Secret Monster Treasure Box by PaleoPunk

Cool Cedar Wood Jewelry Box by triumphman

Cedar Treasure Chest by station420

How to make a wooden secret box (using the laser cutter) by miaNY85

Convert a Wine Barrel into a Cabinet by weon

the box of the secrets by kevinvos

Chest Freezer Kegerator by scottbre

Faux wood secret felted keepsake box by Jupolo

Make a Hide - A - Key (stash spot) by durtbikedave

firewood jewelry box by somebullcrap

Bandsaw Box Basics by malsonc

5 comments

May 1, 2012. 10:32 AMraafal537 says:

Its great

Oct 28, 2011. 12:25 PM

duggerpato says:

yeah, the Zelda treasure chest with 300k+ views should definitely be included, especially compared to "the box of the secrets" that doesn't have a single real-life picture. Come on, Zaz, update this ebook! :)