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@mattmcgrane the major components are 1) A base with legs and apron 2) A base moulding 3) The chest including drawers and 4) a lid. The base is made like a table- The apron and legs join with mortise and tenon. It’s fancy just because the legs are cabriole and the apron is shaped. The base moulding is a stout frame with a profiled edge that rests on top of the base. In the attached photos you can see it up on screws in the midst of being finished (the screws are just to keep it up in the air while finishing). The photo of the unfinished base and base moulding gives you an idea of the size of the base moulding. The chest sits on top of the base moulding. In this case, the base moulding edge is just profiled, but it could have been cut with a rabbet that the chest would rest inside of. That would have been better, but we didn’t do it. The chest is really very, very much like the tool chest Paul showed us. It’s just a dovetailed box, albeit with some stuff for the drawers. If you compare the unfinished and finished chest, you’ll see there is belt moulding around the chest just above the drawers. It is purely decorative. Finally, there is the lid. The lid is ornamented with three pieces of moulding, two on the two sides, and one on the front lip. The lid moulding overhangs the lid so that it comes over the chest by about 3/16. This hides any gap that might arise from twisting of the lid, if it isn’t too big.
That’s the basic structure.