Project Information
Here's a chest I finished for my sister. I used a single wide board to make all of the drawer fronts. That piece had a tremendous amount of curl to it, more than shows up in the picture. It was impossible to plane, I had to sand it. I also decided to finish the piece with shellac rather than my usual tung oil finish to try to tone down the wild grain a bit.
Frame-and-panel construction, with solid cherry resawn, book-matched panels. Mortise-and tenons for the carcass, hand-cut dovetails for the drawers. The grain was so unpredictable in the fronts that I had to do the last bit of the half-blind dovetails with a router plane rather than split it out with a chisel.
Frame-and-panel construction, with solid cherry resawn, book-matched panels. Mortise-and tenons for the carcass, hand-cut dovetails for the drawers. The grain was so unpredictable in the fronts that I had to do the last bit of the half-blind dovetails with a router plane rather than split it out with a chisel.