Sellers Home Dressing Table Mirror: Episode 4
Posted 13 December 2023
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When the joinery for the drawer comes together, we have some awkward clean up by planing to do. This episode will show what we do to ensure no wrong guesses result in blow-outs. We also have grooves to run in not-so-convenient lengths, widths, and thicknesses, but the clamp-in-the-vise trick answers the issues. Fitting the drawer bottom and assembling for a dry run helps us to rehearse for glueing up, and that final attachment of the drawer front completes the whole of the drawer-making.
Brilliant work by the videographer(s). I have a simple question for Paul: when building the drawer—specifically the four sides—what face and edge does he use as the reference? The top or bottom? The inside or outside face?
Thank you!
Michael
Thanks Paul. For a drawer this size, when checking the diagonals, what tolerance in terms difference in the diagonals do you consider acceptable? I know the value is divided by half ultimately in terms of error. Just trying to understand for something this size is reasonable so I don’t drive myself crazy.
I am curious, given the grain is the same direction and the wood is the same, why did Paul screw the drawer front on instead of glue?