As it is with most furniture making, we generally rely on repeated joint types for similar areas throughout a piece but if you are like Paul and a hand toolist, you often have different options with regards to methods and techniques. Paul tries to include different ways of achieving the same results to make you aware and teach you.
From edge jointing to panel making, crosscutting, and then raising the panels, we walk you through the steps, but then we also teach you what to do when we encounter serious problems we might not have anticipated.
Mortising needs some strategic action, and we soon establish patterns with stamina to create accurate mortises without allowing the chisel to wander from the path we establish.
Opening this series with construction-grade wood may not be everyone’s choice, but we assure you it is dynamic. Also, it is worth noting that vernacular furniture made from softwoods was commonplace in the 1800s.
It’s not too often when construction-grade lumber is used to create an heirloom piece. But perhaps we need to have the same attitude as craftsmen of old did, when many vernacular pieces came from the plainest of softwoods yet lasted as a legacy for many generations to use and rely on.
Applying and aligning the drawer fronts ready for fixing, and establishing exact lengths and widths, is quick and simple with a few trade secrets. And there are several in this episode.
Throughout the Sellers’ Home pieces, we have introduced different options for handles rather than going out to buy them. The handles can either make or break any furniture piece, or they can blend in to nearly disappear from the main body of work.
The elements of drawer making and fitting can be quite diversely different, especially when using drawer runners, as we will be on the large bottom drawer.
There are so many small things covered throughout this episode that lead to a big and positive outcome. We fit the drawers to the openings and make the larger drawer for the actual files to stand in.
Drawer-making always seems to have a new nuance somewhere, but then there is an order to the process that should always be adhered to. The steps in this video on making the drawers for Paul’s filing cabinet serve as a treatise on drawer-making.