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Interest Davy Jones Chest
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mbmcfarland
Sr Member
Outstanding work! I’m interested if you do a run.
Foolishmortal42
New Member
Following. Interested if you do a run.
Great to hear people are interested. Still working hard on this, it will be the case of nothing then suddenly lots to show. Experimenting with bending and laminating the walnut for the top of the chest. Re printed my updated metal panel for casting, I might have gone a bit too far with it... need to wait for it to cure before I make a decision. Working on the locking mechanism but most importantly figuring out how to make it in the most efficient way possible. Updates soon.
robstyle
Master Member
If my memory is correct Disney outsourced the original chests creation at a cost of $60,000. Every single rivit and detail was individually hand crafted. Then when it came time to have moulds made the person hired to do that work, for some reason started to mold everything individually as well! Rivits, tentacles, edging... It was never going to reach completion. So that was scrapped and that job went to another shop as filming had already began. There was one main hero chest that was taken apart and molded. A top, bottom, separate hinges in the closed position, the inner locking mock up mechanism which was a solid piece, handles left and right and then for the open chest separate locking blocks were cast to compensate. The crab lock was a separate piece adhered on which also had a couple different moulds made. There was a one piece crab and another version with separate arms and legs for the opening gag. The section where the crab mounts was cast separate as well for open chests. When all was said and done the original mould was marked so any future pulls could be identified. This marking is on the MR version as theirs was based off a pull from that mould.
An interesting foot note is the chests on display at the film premieres and Disney parks were originally created for that soul purpose but some did end up used in filming and then on the rides themselves. No chests were made from wood. All were rubber or cast plastic. There was an issue with the opening chest gag as it wasn't designed to actually open as seen in the film. That chest was full of plungers with cables wires and tubes coming out of one end. It was a challenge to get all that to work in a tiny confined space. The same guy that did the rotating map gag did that work.
There was also an issue with the key actually fitting the lock. It was never ending.
Forgot to add the chests anded up with hand made handles for most of them. Others had castings. Any open chests also had hand made hinges.
An interesting foot note is the chests on display at the film premieres and Disney parks were originally created for that soul purpose but some did end up used in filming and then on the rides themselves. No chests were made from wood. All were rubber or cast plastic. There was an issue with the opening chest gag as it wasn't designed to actually open as seen in the film. That chest was full of plungers with cables wires and tubes coming out of one end. It was a challenge to get all that to work in a tiny confined space. The same guy that did the rotating map gag did that work.
There was also an issue with the key actually fitting the lock. It was never ending.
Forgot to add the chests anded up with hand made handles for most of them. Others had castings. Any open chests also had hand made hinges.
Those are great pictures thank you. It really does look like painted resin doesn't it? 
I want to assure people I am still very much on this, although having to make some oak tables and beams for our living room does get in the way somewhat Real life ay? Oh and yes I am also making myself some aztec gold coins... cant help myself.
I want to make it in as 'traditional' a way as possible. Here is my very successful laminating result. This will of course be the top of the chest.
Once ebonized it looks really lovely... very hard to capture how nice it looks in photos annoyingly.
It is very black. Very black.. watching the film again and indeed looking at logan74ks pictures there are hints of brown showing through. Its not just completely black so I've been experimenting with my ebonizing liquid and I've round a ratio of 1/6 to water gives the wood that lovely black look but allows hints of brown to be seen at various angles. Again very hard to capture on photos.
Seeing it in person it gives the wood more life, more interest.
More soon
I want to assure people I am still very much on this, although having to make some oak tables and beams for our living room does get in the way somewhat Real life ay? Oh and yes I am also making myself some aztec gold coins... cant help myself.I want to make it in as 'traditional' a way as possible. Here is my very successful laminating result. This will of course be the top of the chest.
Once ebonized it looks really lovely... very hard to capture how nice it looks in photos annoyingly.
It is very black. Very black.. watching the film again and indeed looking at logan74ks pictures there are hints of brown showing through. Its not just completely black so I've been experimenting with my ebonizing liquid and I've round a ratio of 1/6 to water gives the wood that lovely black look but allows hints of brown to be seen at various angles. Again very hard to capture on photos.
Seeing it in person it gives the wood more life, more interest.
More soon
robstyle
Master Member
That's one of the chests I mentioned prior. Some of those display chests ended up on the rides at the parks. Some also ended up being used in the films.
Hmm, that looks surprisingly, (disappointingly) low quality up close. Maybe that's a 'stunt' version?? It makes my Master Replicas version look pretty close to the real thing. And it makes me very excited to see what Sevv can come up with.
To each their own - I'm a hardcore perfectionist and I don't see anything wrong with it quality-wise. On one hand yes, the MR version appears to be partially molded (or scanned) directly from the screen used. Otherwise, details on the suckers and frame filagree elements are definitely softer on the MR castings. Their textured flat elements are thicker and more heavily distressted - looks almost like deteriorating leather. They did some adjustment to the crab shapes probably for ease of draft in molding. And course it will never look right 'open' because the bolts can't pop out...
Not to undermine any of the impressive work going on here, but the chest looks like it is meant to resemble iron and iron cladding.
Not to undermine any of the impressive work going on here, but the chest looks like it is meant to resemble iron and iron cladding.
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LuckyS7evine
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