I made these two chests this past Summer at the "Workshop in the Woods". (In da UP eh!) They are made from eastern white pine boards cut from trees felled on our property.
Since they were intended to be placed in our walk-in closet the design is simple and functional. I used a rockler dovetail jig on all the fully dovetailed drawers, which are interchangeable. I was able to achieve a high degree of precision and squareness thanks to my Incra MiterSled 5000. Surprisingly, it takes many board feet of lumber for ten rather large drawers.
All the boards were nominally 14" in width, so I had to do a lot of jointing and gluing. I used the Shopsmith 4" jointer with roller stands set precisely level with the infeed and outfeed with a Veritas 50" aluminum straightedge. With this method I've been able to joint and glue board eight feet long.
The finish is three coats of water based poly, which enhances the limited light in the closet.
Beautiful job. And free lumber is a plus. Hopefully you get to use ONE of those drawers. I installed a prefab draw set in our closet, 8 drawers, and....I have 1/2 of one.
I did manage to get most of one chest for my own use. It seems that every year we have high winds that fell a tree or two. I have a friend with a WoodMizer who comes up and cuts them into boards for me. I have more white and red pine than I can ever use.
Alec:
I put this project on the Lumberjocks site so the "stand alone tool" guys could see that a Shopsmith can also do serious woodworking.
What a great looking pair of chests. Would that be the Mackinac Bridge where heaven is located? Greetings from Orlando, Fl, I take it you spend the winter in Gainesville?
rcf wrote:What a great looking pair of chests. Would that be the Mackinac Bridge where heaven is located? Greetings from Orlando, Fl, I take it you spend the winter in Gainesville?
Check his 'profile'. Yer right on both ????
Ralph: Kudos on them drawers. Not sure the 'lumberjocks' will take yer 'message' the correct way, but way to go in exposing them to what can be done. Glad you got DSL @ UP. Big Brother function has to give you greater piece of mind while in Gainesville!
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(OUCH!!!! Sorry honey, I didn't realize you were watching me type this PM!!!)
