Well, I didn't get to go to the show today as the LOML's mother fell and hurt her hip yesterday. I did get a little shop time to work on the dresser I have started. I am building it out of cherry that I have had for some time. All the internal components (drawer sides, frame members, etc) will be white oak.
I got the legs cut out, mortised, dovetailed, dadoed, and rabbetted. I am attaching the the front and back rails to the legs with dovetails. I have used rabbets and dadoes in the past to attach rails, but I just think dovetails are stronger for this type of connection.
I made a little jig for cutting the dovetails into the legs. Nothing special, just some dadoes and stopped dadoes in a piece of baltic birch ply. Where I got a bit smarter than ususal (at least I think I was) is that I made sure the sizes of the dadoes were the same size down to .004 with a set of calipers as I needed one set of through dovetails and one set of stopped dovetails.
For the cutting the sliding dovetails on the rails I made another jig to slide on the fence of my router table. I did one thing wrong with it though, I should have made it out of 1/2" ply instead of 1/4" as the toggle clamp flexes the plywood slightly.
I made the side panels out of 3/4" cherry plywood. Normally, I would glue up boards and make a solid panel, but I told my wife I would not buy any wood, I had the ply from a project that fell through for my brother in law, you won't be able to tell it is ply, and it is some very pretty stuff. I cut a 1/2 inch tenon on the sides with the shaper (very easy to use) and notched them with a handsaw and a chisel.
Here is a side assembly dry fitted.
And here are the parts I have so far for the carcass dry fitted.
Thanks for looking
I got the legs cut out, mortised, dovetailed, dadoed, and rabbetted. I am attaching the the front and back rails to the legs with dovetails. I have used rabbets and dadoes in the past to attach rails, but I just think dovetails are stronger for this type of connection.
I made a little jig for cutting the dovetails into the legs. Nothing special, just some dadoes and stopped dadoes in a piece of baltic birch ply. Where I got a bit smarter than ususal (at least I think I was) is that I made sure the sizes of the dadoes were the same size down to .004 with a set of calipers as I needed one set of through dovetails and one set of stopped dovetails.
For the cutting the sliding dovetails on the rails I made another jig to slide on the fence of my router table. I did one thing wrong with it though, I should have made it out of 1/2" ply instead of 1/4" as the toggle clamp flexes the plywood slightly.
I made the side panels out of 3/4" cherry plywood. Normally, I would glue up boards and make a solid panel, but I told my wife I would not buy any wood, I had the ply from a project that fell through for my brother in law, you won't be able to tell it is ply, and it is some very pretty stuff. I cut a 1/2 inch tenon on the sides with the shaper (very easy to use) and notched them with a handsaw and a chisel.
Here is a side assembly dry fitted.
And here are the parts I have so far for the carcass dry fitted.
Thanks for looking