While the dining table is getting it’s first use on Thanksgiving 2018, after dinner I started my next project.  In 2014 I built a toy chest for my niece Mikayla and this year I am building one for her little brother, Greyson.  It will be of similar construction.  I used floating tenons and floating glued up panels for the first toy chest which worked very well.

For the second chest I may try something different and use dowels for the joinery and solid panels.  It will likely still use clear water-based acrylic for the top and milk paint for the base, probably blue,  Today I got the top of the chest glued up and used a card scraper to clean up the glue line and smooth out the surface.

Links for both projects below.

https://adkins72.wordpress.com/portfolio/toy-chest-for-greyson/

https://adkins72.wordpress.com/portfolio/toy-chest-for-mikayla/