What I made during lockdown

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dman2

Discussion Starter · Apr 10, 2020

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Here's a bit of work done during my isolation time: a chest of drawers for my wife's knitting yarn.
It's made of cherry, with walnut handles, featuring rabbeted half-blind dovetails, full extension drawers, and pocket hole joinery.
It could have been bigger, as it is full, and she still has more yarn! Here is some of her work, if you are interested in what she makes...

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Semipro

· #2 · Apr 10, 2020

Dave
Very nice ,walnut pulls nice touch I am she happy

Stick486

· #3 · Apr 10, 2020

excellent on the details and joinery...

Bstrom

· #4 · Apr 10, 2020

Excellent work! And a lot of yarn! You’re not done yet, are you?

RainMan 2.0

· #5 · Apr 11, 2020

Absolutely beautiful job Dave . Liking your ideas of installing the drawers while it’s open like that

woodworker47

· #6 · Apr 11, 2020

Dave,

Very nice work. I am sure she will enjoy it.

Frank

Multiwood

· #7 · Apr 11, 2020

Excellent job David

sreilly

· #8 · Apr 11, 2020

Sweet piece of furniture and looks like it will get plenty of use. Cherry and walnut are 2 of my favorite woods.

DaninVan

· #9 · Apr 11, 2020

Hell yeh! Beautiful, Dave.
Just out of curiosity, what's the thinking behind that 'stiffener' running horizontally across the top back of the drawer front in the side view of the drawer?

sreilly

· #10 · Apr 11, 2020

DaninVan said:
Hell yeh! Beautiful, Dave.
Just out of curiosity, what's the thinking behind that 'stiffener' running horizontally across the top back of the drawer front in the side view of the drawer?

Isn't that the original thickness of the front board where there are no dovetails?

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DaninVan

· #11 · Apr 11, 2020

*Slaps Forehead*

sreilly said:
Isn't that the original thickness of the front board where there are no dovetails?

OK; what threw me was the apparently different wood grains...

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Herb Stoops

· #12 · Apr 11, 2020

Looks like the drawer front to me with an added face. Good job, never thought of adding the drawer slides with the top off, sure might be easier.

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DaninVan

· #13 · Apr 11, 2020

Makes sense now.

dman2

Discussion Starter · #14 · Apr 11, 2020

Herb Stoops said:
Looks like the drawer front to me with an added face. Good job, never thought of adding the drawer slides with the top off, sure might be easier.

The drawer front is a 7/16" thick, rabbeted half-blind. It is a solid piece of cherry. The sides are 1/2" poplar. There is no added face.
The front is not the same height as the sides, so the dovetails only go up part way on the front. Here is another view...
Hope this helps!

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dman2

Discussion Starter · #15 · Apr 11, 2020

RainMan 2.0 said:
Liking your ideas of installing the drawers while it’s open like that

Each drawer is isolated from each other by a panel, so that yarn won't fall from one drawer to another. It made sense to install slides from the bottom up, after installing a panel, so that I wouldn't have to be a contortionist!

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Stick486

· #16 · Apr 11, 2020

dman2 said:
The drawer front is a 7/16" thick, rabbeted half-blind. It is a solid piece of cherry. The sides are 1/2" poplar. There is no added face.
The front is not the same height as the sides, so the dovetails only go up part way on the front. Here is another view...
Hope this helps!

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TenGees

· #17 · Apr 13, 2020

Good job, Dave. I like the joint showing in the base too.

marecat3

· #18 · Apr 16, 2020

It is a thing of beauty. I looked at her work very nice. Is it needle felting?

oldprinter1468

· #19 · Jun 1, 2020

Nice build.

dman2

Discussion Starter · #20 · Jun 2, 2020

marecat3 said:
It is a thing of beauty. I looked at her work very nice. Is it needle felting?

No. Marcia mostly does crocheting and knitting.
She says you might have looked at the fuzzy creatures, and said she uses the hook half of velcro to tease a normal length of yarn, or uses mohair yarn.
The things I learn at this forum!

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