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Look at me -- I'm still woodworking! Not sure how long the streak will last, so I guess I'm trying to make the most of it....
Perhaps the wife was hinting to me when she put a lamp on a cardboard box next to the bed, so I got to work. Construction is all cherry (except for BB corner leg braces just under the top, and maple drawer sides and bottom). I turned the knobs from a matching piece of wood. I decided against gluing up 4/4 stock for the legs, which required a costly lumber run (costly because, in addition to the 8/4 cherry for the legs, I saw some 12/4 maple for another project...). The side-by-side picture gives an idea of the change in appearance with viewing angle, as the two really do match (I swear). The finish is BLO (after a sealer coat of 1# shellac), with shellac overcoat to seal in the BLO, then a few coats of wipe-on poly.
This was my first attempt at handcut dovetails -- seemed like the right number of drawers to try it on. I've done some web-research on technique, and thought about it for a while, but there's nothing like actually doing it to decide what works and what doesn't (at least for me). I made through dovetails using a half-thickness of drawer front, and then glued on the front to complete. I cut tails first, and marked the pins, straight cuts with a dovetail saw, waste cut out with coping saw, and used a guide block and chisel to pare to the line.
Thanks for looking!
Regards,
Tom
Perhaps the wife was hinting to me when she put a lamp on a cardboard box next to the bed, so I got to work. Construction is all cherry (except for BB corner leg braces just under the top, and maple drawer sides and bottom). I turned the knobs from a matching piece of wood. I decided against gluing up 4/4 stock for the legs, which required a costly lumber run (costly because, in addition to the 8/4 cherry for the legs, I saw some 12/4 maple for another project...). The side-by-side picture gives an idea of the change in appearance with viewing angle, as the two really do match (I swear). The finish is BLO (after a sealer coat of 1# shellac), with shellac overcoat to seal in the BLO, then a few coats of wipe-on poly.
This was my first attempt at handcut dovetails -- seemed like the right number of drawers to try it on. I've done some web-research on technique, and thought about it for a while, but there's nothing like actually doing it to decide what works and what doesn't (at least for me). I made through dovetails using a half-thickness of drawer front, and then glued on the front to complete. I cut tails first, and marked the pins, straight cuts with a dovetail saw, waste cut out with coping saw, and used a guide block and chisel to pare to the line.
Thanks for looking!
Regards,
Tom
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