Mini Chest of Drawers
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19 July 2016 at 5:02 am #138583
Well let’s try this again – posted this earlier and it went to electron oblivion. Arrgh!
Made a dovetailed box to practice long lines of dovetails and ended up with a 12″ tall x 12″ wide x 11 1/4″ deep box. Decided to make it into a small chest of drawers. I used 18th century drawer making techniques. Learned a lot and got to use some new techniques: fitting a long line of dovetails, half-blind dovetails, sliding dovetails, drawer making, making my own drawer pulls.
The carcase, drawer fronts and drawer bottoms are pine and drawer sides and drawer backs are poplar. Finished with shellac and wax.
For those interested in a play-by-play and a lot more pics, I made 6 blog entries of this build – my blog address should be in my signature line. Then look to the blog archive for “Mini Chest of Drawers”. Thanks for looking.
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You must be logged in to view attached files.19 July 2016 at 9:43 pm #138629Thanks all. I’d highly recommend something like this before committing a saw to nicer wood, such as for the Sellers tool chest project or any other that involves long lines of dovetails.
28 July 2016 at 10:08 am #138879Simple but beautifully made. Having just started out I dream of doing something as good as that.
28 July 2016 at 4:54 pm #138925Thanks again guys. And @pompeyexile – it’ll happen sooner than you think. Just keep practicing and before you know it, you’re doing some really nice work.
16 August 2016 at 10:50 pm #139389Nice job Matt it looks great. That will be a useful chest for something.
Steve
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