Dough Box

I had long wanted to attempt to re-create the antique "Dough Box" that my wife owned and had been passed down through the family.  A dough box, for the uninformed, is a piece of furniture used in the olden times to put freshly made bread dough and other similar concoctions in to allow it to "rise" before baking.  The inside of the piece of furniture provided a warm and dark environment for the dough to "proof" and become ready for the oven.

   For the longest time...I was sort of intimidated by all of the angles and tapers involved in the project.  However, with time, I became much more a believer in my woodworking talents and I finally reached a point where I was confident that I could manage such a thing.  As it turns out, it really wasn't hard at all.  The picture above shows both the dough box that I made on the left and the original antique on the right.  They are identical in every measurment.