Well, I've moved into working on my next commissioned peice. It is a solid wood chest of drawers. The primary wood is genuine mahogany with maple drawers and some poplar used for dust frames. The peice will be 48" tall 80" long and 22" deep with 24 drawers and a section for A/V equipment. A definite one of a kind design. This is a BIG piece.
Since this chest is so large I have to do 80% of the jointery by hand. This will include the half blind dovetails for the case work and the sliding dovetails for the cross supports. They are just too long for my Leigh and too long to run upright on a router table although I might over come that buy building a horizonal router table. I am enjoying the hand work though. I'm going to do a complete writeup on my website at http://www.jsrwoodworking.com/Chestofdrawers/mahoganychestofdrawers.htm
Here are a couple top pics of the work I've done so far. It took me all day today to do the two joints for the bottom of the case. 22" wide hand cut half blind dovetails takes time.
Here was my short cut for layout. A plotter and CAD can save you some time.
Keep watching my website. I plan on keeping pretty current updates.
Thanks,
John
Since this chest is so large I have to do 80% of the jointery by hand. This will include the half blind dovetails for the case work and the sliding dovetails for the cross supports. They are just too long for my Leigh and too long to run upright on a router table although I might over come that buy building a horizonal router table. I am enjoying the hand work though. I'm going to do a complete writeup on my website at http://www.jsrwoodworking.com/Chestofdrawers/mahoganychestofdrawers.htm
Here are a couple top pics of the work I've done so far. It took me all day today to do the two joints for the bottom of the case. 22" wide hand cut half blind dovetails takes time.
Here was my short cut for layout. A plotter and CAD can save you some time.
Keep watching my website. I plan on keeping pretty current updates.
Thanks,
John