Showing 41 through 60 out of 78 articles containing "chest of drawers"
Shop Notes
… small molding strips for the Chairside Chest. I spent a few minutes building a special miter box just for small pieces of molding. features. What's nice about … the turnbuckle closed, the drawer can't come out. MOUNT TURNBUCKLE CATCH ON INSIDE OF DRAWER BACK S CABINET TOP DRAWER CLOSED - MOUNT TURNBUCKLE TO BOTTOM OF CABINET TOP CLAMPING …Read More
Woodsmith Issue 68
April 1990
Managing Wood Movement
…oriented to move in the same direction. The grain in all the panels of the chest at far right runs horizontally. The panels will shrink and swell …of a drawer affects the size of the gap you need to allow. A tall drawer will move more than a narrow drawer. W www.Woodsmith.com a. !/16" gap Narrow drawer NOTE: Size gaps based on width of drawer…Read More
Woodsmith Issue 178
August 2008
Drill Bit Storage Cabinet
… of the lower chest are spaced to accommodate three different sizes of drawers. You can mix-andmatch the drawers by building several different sizes to best meet your storage needs. Woodsmith.com • 23 18 A 12 a. C TOP SECTION VIEW B b. #/4 !/4 FRONT VIEW A !/4 1#/4 1!/2 1!/2 CHEST TOP NOTE: Chest…Read More
Woodsmith Issue 241
February 2019
Tall Case Clock
… find in a well-built chest of drawers, are usually made with mortise and tenon joints. For the six main frames on this clock, 1 borrowed from each of these designs, see Fig. T.… a chisel and mallet, square up the rounded corners of each of the rabbets. cut panels. Now measure the size of each of these openings and cut a lower case back (I) and a…Read More
Woodsmith Issue 70
August 1990
Classic Cherry Bed
…years back, I made a wish list of the pieces of bedroom furniture that I wanted to build. Over time, I’ve managed to build a lingerie dresser (Issue 53), a chest of drawers (Issue 58), and a nightstand…see drawing. (Make sure to feed the slats in the opposite direction of the rotation of the drum, see detail ‘a’.) Also, you’ll get better results if …Read More
Woodsmith Issue 108
December 1996
Adding Perfect Pulls
…draWers. First, lets look at drawers. Here, there are no hard and fast rules for placement of pulls, but you can rely on some guidelines. The chest of drawers opposite illustrates some of these points. one or tWo. One of the first questions you need to answer is one pull or two? The size of the drawer,…Read More
Woodsmith Issue 179
October 2008
Dovetails in Case Construction
…need to justify the extra effort. A simple comparison of joinery techniques should be convincing. Think of the case for a chest of drawers or a cabinet as a big box — two sides, … Drawer front 2 Case top Case side a. Slope of drawer dovetails is 7º to 10º a. Dovetails are 2!/2 to 3 times the width of pins Slope of dovetail is 12º to 15º Drawer…Read More
Woodsmith Issue 181
February 2009
Shop Notebook
…stop 17⁄8" farther down toward the end of the jig. No. 192 30 Woodsmith Veneered Drawer Fronts One of things about the chest of to lay these pieces out slightly overdrawers…around the drawer openings of the chest of drawers, there’s one main challenge. You want the bead to stand proud of the front edges of the web frames and the sides of the …Read More
Woodsmith Issue 192
December 2010
Lingerie Dresser
…DRAWER FRONT '/," SHANK HOLE EDGE OF DRAWER IS FLUSH WITH EDGE OF RAH ATTACH BACK WITH #6 x 'A" Fti WOODSCREWS CUT DRAWER PULL SCREWS3/." LONG 7T^—^~^ 1 . - PLASTIC RETAINING BUTTON (TURNBUCKLE) DRAWER CATCH DRAWER FRONT IN CLOSED POSITION DRAWER…Read More
Woodsmith Issue 53
October 1987
Dovetailing Quick Tips
… up to rout dovetails quickly and accurately. And whether you only have one drawer to build or a chestful, you know they’ll be as strong as possible — and they’ll … and clamping bars, as in the drawing at left. Number ends of jig to correspond with corners of drawer QUICK TROUBLESHOOTING GUIDE Setting up to rout machine-cut dovetails is always a …Read More
Woodsmith Issue 139
February 2002
Shop Notes
…OUR SHOP SHOP NOTES Fitting Center Drawer Guides nder the drawers of the bedside chest (page 6), there are thin guides that fit over the runners inside the case, see… back, bottom edge of drawer a. 3 Long push block with hardboard cleat Waste { A flared notch in the bottom edge of the drawer makes it easier to “feed” the drawer guide onto the …Read More
Woodsmith Issue 139
February 2002
Library Cabinet
…base to the dovetailed drawers to the router table moldings, it has just the right amount of challenge. classic two-piece { Perfectly proportioned and detailed, the lower chest of the two-…stain and several coats of finish, you can move it into place and fill it up. W a. Two-Tiered Chest If you’re interested in making the lower chest of the two-…Read More
Woodsmith Issue 157
February 2005
Poker Chip Case
…’em tournament or a classic game of five-card stud. Although the case looks like a chest with drawers, the top actually lifts off to reveal a pair of removable trays (inset photo). You can customize the trays to hold up to 500 poker chips, a deck of …Read More
Woodsmith Issue 158
April 2005
Favorite Hand Tools
…chest. It has to be a tool you use often, and it also has to fit in one of the drawers in the chest. I learned a couple things from this experiment. For one, stay out of… his low-angle block plane for everything — fitting drawers, smoothing a joint line, and removing saw blade marks from the edge of a workpiece. JACK PLANE. The longer jack plane…Read More
