Small bookshelf with drawers
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4 August 2015 at 11:53 pm #129055
Hello,
I’ve started another project: a small bookshelf for the family. Well, I don’t know if it’s really a bookshelf…
The “bookshelf” has two dividers between the bottom and the main shelf (housing dadoes are fortunately one of my favourite joints…). The two dividers create three recesses. I’ll use the first and the third for two drawers (the empty one is in the middle).
Under the top there’s a rail; I’ve used a sort of halving joint (I’m so sorry, but I don’t know the name).
Next step: rounding edges.
Have a nice day!
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You must be logged in to view attached files.5 August 2015 at 5:22 am #129063Looking good, Emelio. The housing dadoes look nice and that upper joint is really interesting. I find myself now thinking about how the joint is marked out and cut when I see things like this. Paul’s teaching is rubbing off.
5 August 2015 at 9:39 am #129064Thank you Salko, thank you Matt.
I think the correct name of the upper joint is “bridle joint” (if I’m not wrong).
There are several types of bridle joint, actually.
Mine is one of them, I think… 😀Just to clarify: image DSC_1932.jpg shows the bottom of the rail and the bottom of the joint.
Making that joint is very easy and I think bridle joint can help if you want to place a rail under the top shelf.
Have a nice day!
6 August 2015 at 11:40 pm #129165Looks very interesting, I look forward to seeing the finished product. Did you design it yourself?
Matt
7 August 2015 at 8:40 am #129171@chemical_cake: Yes, Matt, I designed it myself. But I think of it as a mixture of several Paul’s project.
@rchrismon: Thank you, you confirm it’s a bridle joint.
I think there’s a little mistake in my joint: grooves (the ones in the rail) don’t need to be so deep. But, ok, in this project it’s not so crucial.Have a nice day!
26 August 2015 at 2:25 pm #129781Hello Salko,
it’s water-based, fast-drying acrylic paint (two colours). Polished with white wax.
The technique is more or less the same Paul uses with chalk paint.For the next projects I’d like to use more traditional (or ancient) techniques (beer glaze, wax + iron oxides, …). Working with pigments is really, really beautiful.
Have a nice day!
26 August 2015 at 2:28 pm #129782Thanks for the heads up emillo I’ve never used before beer glaze and iron oxide, I’ll have to look this up.
26 August 2015 at 2:51 pm #129789For this box I used beer glaze: https://woodworkingmasterclasses.com/discussions/topic/feet-for-the-lid/
8 September 2015 at 7:16 pm #130183Hello,
one of the two drawers is done.
For the back of the drawer I’ve used a “strange” solution.
My grandpa used the same solution in 1940, when he built a dresser for the family…My grandpa died when I was a baby and too young to learn something. But the dresser is still here and I decided to copy that solution. I think it works… In this sense my grandpa is… teaching me something.
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