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OK OK, So It is complete except the fan carvings which I have been fretting over… I have never done fan or shell carving before, and have been practicing, I'm ready to make the jump to the real thing…
So this Highboy is from multiple designs…by Dennis Preston, with modifications to some of the joinery influenced by many others (Randall O'Donnell, Vandal,Norm Abram,others). Made from Cherry for the primary, and poplar for secondary. All the H/B dovetails cut by hand. The legs were my first attempt at Queen Anne style legs. Took two months making half a dozen practice legs, before I started the real ones. I don't have lathe so the pad feet were done by hand. For the finish, I tried Charles Neil's Blotch control which seemed to work really well, Lockwood Antique Cherry water based dye, and (sorry to all the purists), 6 coats of a wipe-on poly. Drawers are finished with shellac only. Half-mortise lock, pulls and escutcheons are from Horton-Brasses.. All in all not perfect…but very happy the way it came out…
So this Highboy is from multiple designs…by Dennis Preston, with modifications to some of the joinery influenced by many others (Randall O'Donnell, Vandal,Norm Abram,others). Made from Cherry for the primary, and poplar for secondary. All the H/B dovetails cut by hand. The legs were my first attempt at Queen Anne style legs. Took two months making half a dozen practice legs, before I started the real ones. I don't have lathe so the pad feet were done by hand. For the finish, I tried Charles Neil's Blotch control which seemed to work really well, Lockwood Antique Cherry water based dye, and (sorry to all the purists), 6 coats of a wipe-on poly. Drawers are finished with shellac only. Half-mortise lock, pulls and escutcheons are from Horton-Brasses.. All in all not perfect…but very happy the way it came out…