While things have heated up outside, it's been nice and cool in my shop. I'm making good progress on the tool chest project, but I found that in my excitement to get the case glued up and the drawers started, I sort of forgot there is a TON of work in the web frames for a chest of drawers. Add in the extra complexity of the stepped front of this design, and I was way off on the amount of work I had in store. I totally understand now why most chests of drawers have a flat front - I'd guess the stepped front has added at least an extra 30% of work to the project.
This episode almost didn't happen. I was ready to start cutting the dados and sockets for my sliding dovetails for the drawer dividers until I realized I needed to rabbet in the recess for the case back. I'm planning to use 1/2" thick ship-lapped boards in the back, and without the rabbet I would have put myself in a real bind. So fortunately I realized my mistake in time.
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1 comment:
Rob,
Another informative post. Good job. I'm looking forward to see how you do the ship lap back. Make sure you leave enough overlap for expansion and contraction.
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