If I were asked what I would do if I did not want to earn a living the answer would still be
     carpentry, or trees and wood would somehow be there. Well, one of the things that I always
     like to make is a small cabinet. It is a real opportunity to let your imagination wander,
     which probably has something to do with why I love making them.

     I mean, just look at the piece below. A pirate's bedside cabinet. Do you really think that
     at the end of a hard day in 1717 some murderous rogue put a cup of hot chocolate on the
     thing by his bed, opened it and took out a good book to read, switched on the table lamp
     and settled down? Alright, so he put the lamp on in the room, put the hot chocolate down,
     put the table lamp on, put the cabin lamp out, opened the cabinet and took out the book,
     took off his boots, stared in dismay at his socks, got into the bunk, covered his feet with the
     blanket before his mum saw them, and then started to read. After a while he drank the
     chocolate, put down the book, and turned out the table lamp. He closed his eyes...

     Peck! Peck! Peck!

     "Drat!" The parrot be asking to go out, and he had forgotten to mend the parrot-flap in the
     cabin door.

     Yet we have right here, apparently, Blackbeard's cabinet...

   Small cabinet - pirate theme

An ancient wooden piece stands alone in the corner. (And it is not me, thank you very much). What can it be? Where is it from? It is dark and old, decorated with faded drawings. On the top there is a compass, a fish...on one side is a date, a year...1717.           The ship looks to be an old one, sailing by the light of a crescent moon. On the starboard side of the cupboard there is a name...Queen Anne's Revenge. That was the name of one of the first ships turned pirate by Edward Teach, otherwise known as...                   Blackbeard! Turn the key in the lock and open the door...inside...       A heavily dovetailed drawer slides open, when pulled by a shiny brass ring.   ...and there in the base lies a map and some coins! The map is of an island, and on it there is clearly marked a large cross. Let us gather a crew and sail, that buried treasure will be ours!   It measures 440mm wide, 350mm deep and 860mm high. (17 inches by 14 inches by 34 inches approximately). Made in November, 2004.

All designs and images remain Copyright Smuntz Wood, 2005.