A Tourney Chest That Comes Apart  Recently I went by air to an
out of kingdom weekend event, a weekend devoted to period
cooking at which I was one of the instructors. I didn't like the
idea of spending an SCA weekend living out of a suitcase, so
designed a peg together tourney chest that broke down to a
collection of planks that would fit in my luggage. The chest is
loosely based on the Mastermeyer chest, a Norse chest from about
1000 A.D. originally containing a collection of tools; I
modified the design, converting all the joints to pegged tenon
and mortice so that it could be taken apart. Information on the
original and a description of a much closer reconstruction is
available on the web.  The chest consists of six pieces, five of
which are shown below--two sides, two ends, a bottom and a top
(not shown). The longest pieces are 25" long, which was just
slightly less than the longest dimension of my suitcase. If you
are making it for the same purpose I was, you will want to
adjust the size accordingly, ba