Clifford
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I built a night stand. It looked like this.
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It's 36 inches high, 16 deep and 21 wide, made with an oak frame (scrounged from old table leaves and the like), birch ply panels. The drawers are oak with dovetails front and back. It's unstained drawer fronts and top with shellac and red milk paint for the rest.
My wife liked it fine except that she wanted another one like it that had just second drawer down with open space above it where the first drawer was and open space below it where the third and fourth drawer were.
So this time, I pulled a chunk of lumber off the pile to build it with. Here's the starting point.
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This is a piece of 8/4ths about 8 feet by 12 inches and an extra chunk left over from something else.
After removing all the knots and the unusable grain, I cut out the pieces I needed for the frame, but the top and drawer will come later. All it yielded was this:
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Which are the pieces for the frame, rough cut and resawed.
Then after a while at the tools, these are the pieces cut and planed to size.
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I bought a Festool Domino 500 and this is my first project using it. I cut the mortices for one side of the frame so far. I guess you might be able to see them here.
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This is the layout I used:
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And that's how far I am. The Domino is pretty terrific. I didn't screw up any of the mortices (there are 20), so I feel pretty good so far. It took some extra time this time, but I can see that it will be fast and effective on future projects.
I will post again when I'm farther along.
Cliff Johns
View attachment 1
It's 36 inches high, 16 deep and 21 wide, made with an oak frame (scrounged from old table leaves and the like), birch ply panels. The drawers are oak with dovetails front and back. It's unstained drawer fronts and top with shellac and red milk paint for the rest.
My wife liked it fine except that she wanted another one like it that had just second drawer down with open space above it where the first drawer was and open space below it where the third and fourth drawer were.
So this time, I pulled a chunk of lumber off the pile to build it with. Here's the starting point.
View attachment 2
This is a piece of 8/4ths about 8 feet by 12 inches and an extra chunk left over from something else.
After removing all the knots and the unusable grain, I cut out the pieces I needed for the frame, but the top and drawer will come later. All it yielded was this:
View attachment 3
Which are the pieces for the frame, rough cut and resawed.
Then after a while at the tools, these are the pieces cut and planed to size.
View attachment 4
I bought a Festool Domino 500 and this is my first project using it. I cut the mortices for one side of the frame so far. I guess you might be able to see them here.
View attachment 5
This is the layout I used:
View attachment 6
And that's how far I am. The Domino is pretty terrific. I didn't screw up any of the mortices (there are 20), so I feel pretty good so far. It took some extra time this time, but I can see that it will be fast and effective on future projects.
I will post again when I'm farther along.
Cliff Johns
