Drawer Two – Part 1
2013.09.30
Now on to the second drawer. In documenting the first drawer, I moved around the dates a little in order to make the progression more linear: front, sides, dovetails, bottom. For this one I will just post in the slightly more haphazard fashion that I work.
On the first drawer, I made the sides about 1/2″ thick. I decided I would try 3/8″ on the second drawer. The first time, I had planed a nearly 1″ board down to 1/2″, then crosscut into three pieces for the two sides and back. But I ran into planing problems later due to reversing grain. Since I was now going to make the sides 3/8″, I decided I would carefully chose sections to crosscut in between reversals, and resaw the sides.
Unfortunately, after planing down the resawn faces, one of the sides was closer to 5/16″. Hm, well, maybe it’ll still work.
I moved on to the drawer bottom. I crosscut a couple more pieces from the cedar fence board, planed them down to 3/8″, and glued them together.
2013.10.04
Today I planed the front and back boards and fitted them into the opening.
Drawer Bottom