Welcome to Wood Talk, for Woodworkers by Woodworkers.

Now here are three guys who, if combined, would make one hell of a woodworker.

Mark Matt and Shadden.

All right, it's Wood Talk Number 274 for September 25, 2015,

and it's a weekend edition of Wood Talk.

Finally, we're back on a regular schedule on a...

Right, time to celebrate.

On today's show, we're giving design and construction advice on a blanket chest.

So we have one question that we'll read from James later on.

Yeah, you know what, let's just get right to it.

Sometimes I read stuff on the weekend show. Sometimes I don't, I don't feel like doing it today.

No, let's not, let's just get right into the meat and potatoes of this.

The reason I'm saying meat and potatoes is because I'm hungry.

Taters. All right, so James emailed us and it's kind of a catch-all lots of different

aspects sort of questions, so we'll try to break it down as much as we can.

He says I am planning on building my future daughter-in-law a bridal chest for their wedding in

October. I want to make it out of frame and panel construction. I bought some sepeli for the main structure but I would like to make the

panels out of a complementary wood.

Could you recommend a complementary wood that would look good with sepelli?

There's question one, somebody write that down.

Okay, I would like to use.

Complementary Woods.

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