Sorry in advance for a kind of lame picture. I generally like to use some means of preventing drawers from being pulled out the whole way - this prevents someone from accidentally pulling the drawer out and dropping it (which happened to one of my pieces at a gallery). On the sideboard, I'm using spinners attached to the underside of the top. But this time I added a piece of 1/8" brass rod, which acts as a stop for the spinner (a stop for a stop, if you please). So instead of being able to turn the spinner freely (which can cause them to bind or unscrew themselves), the brass rod limits their range of motion to only 90 degrees. It's the little things.
Dovetail Goals
A close up from the last post. My dovetails are pretty decent, but there's always room for improvement and so my goal has been to make mine more crisp and clean.
Delightful Dovetails
I'm very pleased with the drawer dovetails. Now it's on to fitting the drawers, no small task to get just the right fit. On the homestretch now.
Under Pressure
The culmination of lots of work: assembling the drawers. I approach every glue-up with some amount of apprehension, and tackling these drawers is no exception. At this point, things have to go right. I think they did, but we'll have to wait until I start fitting the drawers to see how everything came out.
Drawer Bottoms
Here I'm working the drawer bottoms with a #lienielsen number 62. I've slightly cambered the iron and using the plane as a smoother. The material is western red cedar - beautiful, clear, straight grained. Plus the smell is pretty sweet.