- Name: Righ-Tuatha Cailte MacScandal, OSB
- Project Title: A Mästermyr Chest Inspired Replacement for Missing Provincial Regalia: How to Pull a Box Out of a Log
- Local Group: Province of Malagentia
- East Kingdom Wiki: https://wiki.eastkingdom.org/wiki/Cailte_Crobdurg_Mac_Scandal
The champion’s regalia for the Artisan Prime of the Province of Malagentia, a box for each outgoing champion to pass along their artform, was lost a number of years back. When planning to replace it I decided to challenge myself. My idea was building the replacement using only hand tools and with boards riven from an oak tree that we had professionals take down in the back yard. Due to time restraints, and a miscalculation about the size of board that would be required for the base, I did have to sub out the base for a piece of oak plywood cut on the table saw, which itself presented different, fortunately faster solved, difficulties.
After deciding to enter the box into the King & Queen’s Arts & Sciences Championship I cut a display piece to demonstrate how the base was intended to join to the sides using a pegged through tenon and played around with making some closer to period finish. On the box I had used a modern salad bowl finish to protect any random animals or small children that may feel the need to maw on it. Of the three boards in the display piece one is left raw, one is finished with a combination of beeswax and linseed oil, and one is finished with a combination of beeswax and fish oil.
Link to Documentation: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GHtyf5y4sXGfROBvo-DOqipOMYJaN9gIfPYUs4TOZQg/edit?usp=drivesdk