Walnut Chest of Drawers rescued from a leaky shed

Great Save on the dresser. I was give an old desk and it sounds like it came from the same place…so much paint. I enjoyed making it new again, but I think next time I will start from scratch building new.

-- Hawaiilad Larry

Great job!!! Glad you saved that beauty.

-- The more I work with wood the more I recognize only God can make something as beautiful as a tree. I hope my humble attempts at this craft do justice by His masterpiece. -- Tim

I would have thought that piece was too far gone to bother with, but you really did a great job with it. It’s a really interesting piece… I’ve never seen that joinery technique they used on the drawers.

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

Amazing difference between “Before” and “After”. Great job, well done.
The last photo shows pretty bad feet, did you do anything with these?

-- "I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The point is to bring them the real facts." - Abraham Lincoln

looks like new.

Thanks all. I dislike stripping and refinishing, prefering to build. This did come out well.

-- Terry Roswell, L.A. (Lower Alabama) "Life is what happens to you when you are making other plans."

beautiful piece terry, you worked hard on this and i thing it was well worth the save, good hob …a side note, i really dislike stripping furniture, my dad many years ago, worked at a place the had a dipping tank, you lowered it in looking like world war 3 had taken place and it came out clean as a whistle…thats the way i like to do it…grizz

-- GRIZZMAN ...[''''']

Thanks,

Your efforts are a tribute to the people who built befor us? Thomas Moser did rehab and restoration in his early years which taught him a lot about wood working.

Thanks for showing us.

I appreciate too that you stayed as close as possible to what might have been original finish.

-- Cau Haus Designs, Thomas J. Tieffenbacher

This is a piece well worth saving Terry and you’ve done a nice job on it. I was especially interested in the what you call ‘peg and loop’ joinery. I recall (imperfectly) an article I read on the history of that machine joint. It told about the inventor, the machine, etc. It never enjoyed the widespread use of the dovetail, but it was a very clever machine joint and was used quite a bit for awhile. I would think that furniture with those joints would be somewhat hard to find and therefore rare. I’m sorry I can’t remember more about it, but maybe one of our members do. BTW it was an American invention.

-- Mike, American in Norway

Nice job, Terry.

-- CJIII Future cabinetmaker

Those drawer joints are really cool. Good job on the restoration!

What a restore Roz, fabulous job.
Pete

-- Pete G: If you always do what you always did you'll always get what you always got

Thank you guys! I really enjoyed the additional information you have provided on this old piece. My wife has already found a place for it.

-- Terry Roswell, L.A. (Lower Alabama) "Life is what happens to you when you are making other plans."

DocSavage, I appreciate your comments on my work. I have a love for preserving the work of those how went before me and cared enough to create something that has lasted this long, not to mention the owners how have valued and preserved the pieces until now. I occupy my thought with whom and how the old piece was made. I like to speculate which era, region or country the piece I am working on was made in by the methods and materials used in the construction. Thanks for being insightful.

-- Terry Roswell, L.A. (Lower Alabama) "Life is what happens to you when you are making other plans."