Small chest of drawers
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21 March 2018 at 11:42 pm #504972
I’ve just finished a little chest of drawers I made to keep tiny models in. The whole thing is only about 500mm tall (not including the back-splash), and the drawers are about 35mm deep.
The most troublesome thing about it was the drawer-pulls. I find that I’m completely hopeless at repeatability; every single one of these is slightly different from all the others. I need a lot more practice on my lathe, I guess.
21 March 2018 at 11:47 pm #504978The carcass and drawer-fronts are made from some laminated sapele, which I think used to be a counter-top. Being laminated, quite often I had grain running in opposite directions side by side, so I had to keep my planes set to take the shallowest cuts I could manage. I still got the occasional bit of tear-out, but not too much, and mostly easily mended with a card scraper. There are a couple of places though where I lost a decent chunk, and those I’m just going to call “character”.
22 March 2018 at 5:58 pm #505639The most troublesome thing about it was the drawer-pulls. I find that I’m completely hopeless at repeatability; every single one of these is slightly different from all the others.
I though the different knobs was a feature that sets the piece apart. The color and sizing still tie them together.
Try buying something like that commercially. Great piece.
- This reply was modified 6 years, 1 month ago by Larry Geib.
- This reply was modified 6 years, 1 month ago by Larry Geib.
22 March 2018 at 7:02 pm #505678I did order some cast bronze(ish) knobs from China, but I thought I’d like to be able to make something entirely by my own hands. The current knobs are just screwed in place, not glued, so if I find I just can’t live with them I can always swap them out, but I find I’m coming around to them.
Buying something similar to these locally in turned wood is pretty expensive. I’d be paying in the region of a hundred bucks to get pulls for all ten drawers.
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