Student Desk

Built this desk for my youngest daughter a few years back when she was in high school. Wanted the wood and finish to match the dresser/hutch piece built a few years before. Construction is out of solid oak, dovetail drawers (hand cut), and finished with Minwax Golden Pecan, and three coats of Polycrylic Satin.
The design was simple and straighforward, I wanted a piece that was sturdy and functional. I had just purchased my Delta hollow chisel mortiser, so creating the mortise and tenon joinery was a breeze.
I fitted the drawer to the desk using a technique found in Fine Woodworking-don’t remember the issue. If you look closely, you’ll see that the desk front is actually made of three pieces of oak, with the center piece being the one with the drawer face cut out of it.
If I had to do this project again, I’d cut all three pieces from the same board, so the grain pattern would be unbroken. Think at the time I built this, didn’t have a wide enough piece of oak to accoomplish this, so got lazy and made it from two separate boards.

-- Gerry