The Details For Drawer Construction
The drawers used on the cheat and the night stand shown in this issue are a little out of the ordinary. We wanted to keep the design clean and simple . . , yet we also wanted to build drawers that were interesting from a woodworking standpoint. To make them interesting, we decided to have absolutely clean drawer fronts not even any drawer pulls. Instead, the lower edge of the drawer front has a concealed cove which is used to open the drawer. This feature had to be taken into consideration for...
Scrap Wood Corner Clamps
Not too long ago, I had to make a large number of Lazy Susan shelves. Everything went together just fine until I realized I was producing a mountain of cut-off corners that were taking over my shop. I hated the thought of feeding all those cut offs into my wood heater, so I decided to come up with some way to use the scraps. Finally, I came on the idea of combining the corner cut-offs with two C-clamps to form a corner clamp. The corner clamps can be used to square up case work, or to just...
The Edging Strips
Now the solid-wood edging strips can be added to the front and back edges of the plywood sides. All of these strips are cut from 5 4 stock l' W thick actual . back edging. The back edging strips C , are ripped to width so they're just slightly Vie wider than the thickness of the plywood sides, see Cross Section in Fig. 1. This extra width provides just enough material so the surface of the strips can be planed and sanded down perfectly flush with the plywood. Then these strips are cut to length...
The Drawers
At last, we arrive at the whole point of building this chest the drawers. The drawers are designed with a concealed cove on the drawer front, see Fig. 19. Although this makes the drawer fronts interesting from a design and construction standpoint, it also makes the drawers slightly more complicated to build. We decided to put all of the details on the construction of these drawers in a separate article on page 13. But basically the drawers are constructed as follows. sides and back. The first...
Pliant Wood Veneer
I have a small confession to make. Throughout the articles on the chest, the night stand, and the headboard, I mentioned using hardwood plywood to build the projects. That's not entirely accurate. When we originally designed these projects, wre intended to build them out of oak, then at the last minute, we decided to use Honduras Mahogany instead. The only problem is that Honduras Mahogany is not available as plywood. So, what we had to do was make our own plywood using flexible veneer and...