Popular Post mdbuilder Posted August 5, 2021 Author Popular Post Report Share Posted August 5, 2021 First three sets of drawer sides cooking in the clamps. Plan calls for a lamination of hard maple on the bottom edge so you glue a chunk between two sides and separate via table saw rip. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coop Posted August 5, 2021 Report Share Posted August 5, 2021 Not sure I understand about the hard maple? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdbuilder Posted August 5, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2021 Basically a wear strip. Solution to an observation that 100 year old antiques come in for repair when the bottom edges of the drawers have been worn into a concave shape from being opened and closed thousands of times. So the author / plan calls for a 5/16" lamination of hard maple added to the secondary wood drawer bottom sides for wear resistance. Similarly the drawer runners are hard maple and replaceable. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdbuilder Posted August 6, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 6, 2021 Drawer sides and backs ready to get crosscut to length. Have I said I love this drum sander? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdbuilder Posted August 6, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 6, 2021 Almost screwed up a bit this morning. The drawers need a 3/16" * 1/4" groove around the bottom for the bottoms. I bought one of those wobble dado blades by Oldham because it does 3/16" at the lowest setting, my normal Freud set is maybe a 1/4". Anyway, spent a fair bit of time this morning fiddling with it and figuring out how to get it setup. It is pretty tight on the arbor as some blades are the first time you use them and once you tighten it down and discover the width is off it requires some firm jiggling to get it off the arbor a bit to change the setting. Then test cuts to get it to the right depth etc. Marked all the sides as to which way was out, about to make the first cut - DUH, don't have the fronts yet, maybe I should wait 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mdbuilder Posted August 7, 2021 Author Popular Post Report Share Posted August 7, 2021 Drawer fronts all friction fit to size. NOW, I can cut the grooves 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark J Posted August 7, 2021 Report Share Posted August 7, 2021 On 8/6/2021 at 7:43 AM, mdbuilder said: DUH, don't have the fronts yet, maybe I should wait I don't know what brought this to mind for you, but I find that if that if before initiating the operation at hand I let my mind run through the outcome I expect and the steps that are going to follow, the "conversation" often runs something like this: "OK, I'm gonna do... then I'm gonna... then I'm gonna... Oh wait! That's not gonna... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnG Posted August 7, 2021 Report Share Posted August 7, 2021 On 8/7/2021 at 10:47 AM, Mark J said: I let my mind run through the outcome I expect and the steps that are going to follow, the "conversation" often runs something like this: "OK, I'm gonna do... then I'm gonna... then I'm gonna... Oh wait! That's not gonna... This technique would benefit a lot of people. In woodworking and otherwise… 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdbuilder Posted August 7, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2021 Good tip Let the dovetailing begin. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chestnut Posted August 8, 2021 Report Share Posted August 8, 2021 Drawer fronts look good. Personal choice but I'd have put your bottom face in the 2nd row. I like crazy grain cherry though and try and highlight it. The chest of drawers is coming along nicely. 23 hours ago, JohnG said: This technique would benefit a lot of people. In woodworking and otherwise… A lot of people would just benefit from turning on their brain in general... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdbuilder Posted August 8, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 8, 2021 On 8/8/2021 at 8:12 AM, Chestnut said: Drawer fronts look good. Personal choice but I'd have but your bottom face in the 2nd row. I like crazy grain cherry though and try and highlight it. The chest of drawers is coming along nicely. A lot of people would just benefit from turning on their brain in general... Ahh, huh? Did spell check change put to but? Are you suggesting you would have moved the bottom drawer face to the second row? I kinda put it at the bottom because it was the most different and thought it would breakup the continuity of the first 4 rows which are more similar. 37" wide drawers are tough, you basically need a 20 foot board to get them all from 1 plank. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chestnut Posted August 8, 2021 Report Share Posted August 8, 2021 Oopps typo, i fixed it. It's all preference. I see it being somewhat similar to the top drawer face. Im probably wrong in my opinion though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mdbuilder Posted August 8, 2021 Author Popular Post Report Share Posted August 8, 2021 It's all subtle, you are looking at a photo so you might feel different in person. The first three rows I think came from to same board so the color is pretty identical, the bottom was a different board with very similar but not identical color. It was also 10" wide so I lost the straighter grain edges when I cut it to size. Anyway, first drawer is dovetailed and will actually slide in (reluctantly) which is a good sign . This drawer pocket is the wonkiest, the left side is ever so slightly shorter the the center divider side. 1/64th? Maybe? It'll tune up with a hand plane once it is glued. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdbuilder Posted August 9, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 9, 2021 After a required sharpening session, drawer 2 is now done. 40 dovetails down, 60'ish to go 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdbuilder Posted August 9, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 9, 2021 Glued up drawer #2 for a change of pace. I'll get back to dovetailing but the alternate activities are nice. Went with regular wood glue, a drawer is not as nerve wracking as the whole case 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdbuilder Posted August 10, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2021 Slides in easily after pin trimming. Still needs some additional fitting. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mdbuilder Posted August 10, 2021 Author Popular Post Report Share Posted August 10, 2021 Both top drawers are now functional 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdbuilder Posted August 10, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2021 Taking stock of remaining fabrication tasks this morning. I've re-sawed some 3/16" * 1" & 9/16" strips for drawer stops from 3/4" stock and drum sanded to thickness, need to get a bit of leather from the local craft store to face the stops with. I emptied my overflowing 35 gallon dust collector drum in preparation for drawer bottom milling. These are only 5/16" thick so I will try some re-sawing on that stock as I get it milled up. And of course, dovetailing the last three drawers. Knobs are on the way and the can of Waterlox has shipped with all the other finishing materials in house already. If I get the drawers mostly dovetailed this week I can probably finish up the stops and bottoms over the weekend, drawer fitting and sanding next week... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mdbuilder Posted August 10, 2021 Author Popular Post Report Share Posted August 10, 2021 Anybody need some leather for facing drawer stops? Let me know - I need about 2 square inches and I left Hobby Lobby with a 3 pound bag of remnants for $9.99 LOL! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdbuilder Posted August 11, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2021 Drawer #3 dovetailed. No glue yet. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdbuilder Posted August 12, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2021 Got all the tails on the sides of drawer #4 sawn. Probably chop in the morning and do 1 set of sockets on the front. Second set of sockets and rear through pins tomorrow night. For now, sleep . These full width drawers are a bit of a problem to mark out as the fronts and backs are 4.5" taller than my bench surface... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdbuilder Posted August 12, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2021 Got the tails all chopped on #4 and started on the first set of sockets. Time for work... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mdbuilder Posted August 13, 2021 Author Popular Post Report Share Posted August 13, 2021 And then there was 1 left. Drawer 4 is dovetailed, 1 to go. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdbuilder Posted August 13, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 13, 2021 Couple more beauty shots. Need to do a little chisel tune up tomorrow, I dropped my 1/2" Lie Neilson on the concrete 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mdbuilder Posted August 14, 2021 Author Popular Post Report Share Posted August 14, 2021 Starting to look like something. Temporarily popped a couple knobs on, cleared the internal parts and dropped the top on. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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