Custom Desk #1: Curved Dovetailed Drawers

Beautiful and unique way to do dovetails Lee. Wish I had your experience and prowess. I’d be rich probably like you are. Keep teaching us pickers the ropes, thanks, mike.

-- Mike. Profisher50@yahoo.com

That’s an awful lot of chiseling.

Very nice!

-- Dick Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

That’s a real engineering job Lee….. talk about talent, you got it. Thanks for the info.

Dave

-- Dave Leitem,Butler,Pa.,http://dlcarver.etsy.com

Very Nice. Simple design once you figure it out. The difficulty is all in the execution.

-- //FC - Round Rock, TX - "Experience is what you get just after you need it"

Execution….yep.

I know how to hold a paint brush, but ask me to copy the Mona Lisa and it ain’t gonna look anything at all like da Vinci’s. :-)

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Nice job Lee. Just make it simple and do it!

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

Very nicely executed Lee.
I can’t believe the hours of training and practice that one represents.
My hats off to you Lee.

Bob

-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner

Lee,

This is a wonderful post. I read Willie’s post but didn’t have a clue how to help him. I can at least understand the process now. Now if I could only handcut dovetails. I know practice, practice, practice is the key.

Thanks for the post. I found it to be both informative and instructional as well.

-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.

wow lee that looks awesome! i just finished a one week hand tools intensive course , our finally project was hand cut compound dovetails, all i can say is they look amazing when done right and yours are done perfect. thanks for the inspiration.

-- Roper - master of sawdust-

That is just truly awsome. Good thinking and execution. Well done sir.

Steve

-- Stevethepeeve -- I'm no rocket surgeon

Hi Guys;

Thank you all for the great comments on this drawer technique.

Coming from this group of people it means a lot!

As Charlie M says above with his signature line: “Woodworking – patience = firewood”.

Or at the very least, a smaller project! LOL

That really is the key to it all!

Thanks;

Lee

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Lee. You make it look so easy. Well at least we don’t see the hours of practice that it took to get there.

A great looking job.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

Hi Karson;

Thank you my friend. Coming from you it means a lot.

Maybe we can try this at the picnic. ( If I can remember how) lol

Lee

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Lee

I wished we lived closer so I could apprentice with you. Another great job!

-- Bob A in NJ

Hey Bob;

Thanks the kind words.

You’d probably find out you know more than me!

Maybe we can play around with this technique at the picnic this year.

Lee

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You make it look simple Lee but thats the art of a true craftsman. Great blog & thanks for sharing.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

Hi Grumpy;

Thank you for your kind words. It’s appreciated.

Lee

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