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The Wife's Dresser

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In August, just 1 week before I had to start teaching again, after having a 2 and 1/2 month break my wife asked me to build her a dresser for Christmas. She wanted it to match the other furniture in the bedroom. It is made out of knotty pine, and the edge treatments match another dresser. The Inlay came from leftover material when I built her headboard.

-- remember always measure once and cut twice


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MsDebbieP

12282 posts in 697 days


posted 612 days ago

gotta love the timing!! hehehe :)
this is gorgeous. Looks like it will hold a lot of clothes!!

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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shack

70 posts in 612 days


posted 612 days ago

Nice I have allways wanted to try some inlay work.

-- JohnShackleford,North Carolina

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Max

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posted 612 days ago

Very nice chest of drawers.

-- Max "Desperado", Salt Lake City, UT

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Chip

1058 posts in 629 days


posted 612 days ago

A perfect example of how beautiful pine can be. And the inlay makes the piece so elegant. Beautiful work roundabout. Thanks for showing it to us.

-- Better to say nothing and be thought the fool... then to speak and erase all doubt.

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roundabout22

65 posts in 623 days


posted 612 days ago

Debbie, it’s like having an aircraft carrier in the bedroom. But that was her one requirement, “I want enough drawer space to hold ALL my clothes.”

Thank you everyone for your comments

-- remember always measure once and cut twice

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Greg3G

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posted 612 days ago

Sounds like my wife….her timing is impecable….always asks for something just as I am getting started with something completly different. Got to Love’m. Looks great. Like the inlay…good use of available materials.

-- Greg - Charles Town, WV

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MsDebbieP

12282 posts in 697 days


posted 612 days ago

I guess you are lucky that she doesn’t have more clothes :D

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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BassBully

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posted 612 days ago

RoundAbout,

I don’t think there’s enough dressers in the world to hold women’s clothes. That’s why they invented closets. I do like your dresser though.

-- There are three types of people in the world, those who can count and those who can't!

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scottb

3060 posts in 864 days


posted 612 days ago

I got a “you should build sweetie a dollhouse” in early December. I reminded her that my grandfather was still working on my sisters on Christmas morning (but it’s still great). She had better decide such things in January!

you could have built a smaller one, and handed her a box of trashbags to donate some stuff…. Yeah right… build the BIG dresser and sleep better.

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

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dennis mitchell

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posted 612 days ago

That should make her one happy girl!

-- http://www.woodsongsfurniture.com

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David

1830 posts in 676 days


posted 612 days ago

Very nice work! Its good to see some pine.

-- http://foldingrule.blogspot.com

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oscorner

4573 posts in 848 days


posted 611 days ago

I never thougt of inlaying a piece of molding. It really came out great.

-- Jesus is Lord!

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Diane

464 posts in 660 days


posted 611 days ago

It is beautiful, I love the look of nature wood and the inlay is beautiful.

Diane

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CharlieM1958

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posted 609 days ago

Nice work. I hope she paid you well. ;-)

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

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roundabout22

65 posts in 623 days


posted 608 days ago

My payment is that I get to keep woodworking, and on occasions get to buy a new tool (Honey, I would love to build you that but I need a <inser name=”true”> to do it.) As long as I get her projects done she’ll let me do others.

-- remember always measure once and cut twice

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DAN

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posted 291 days ago

I like it !

-- ..... art for lifes sake ... danwalters@lumberjocks.com

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jeanmarc

1753 posts in 253 days


posted 185 days ago

Very nice work!

-- jeanmarc manosque france

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darryl

986 posts in 863 days


posted 185 days ago

looks great!
I’ve made a few projects with knotty pine and have always enjoyed working with it.

-- ~ www.darrylmasterson.com ~ www.woodworkingdungeon.blogspot.com ~

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Dusty56

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posted 116 days ago

Beautiful Pine dresser and that inlay is a sweet addition : )

-- Dusty56@comcast.net

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