My dear wife has really taken up knitting, now her library-room is awash in yarn. And with my shop getting reorganized, I need a place just outside the shop, in the finished basement, for miscellaneous small tools. After spying the tool chest/cabinet on the cover of the October 2010 Wood magazine, I realized that I needed to build two, one for my shop and one for her library (she is a retired librarian). I wanted to use Ash, not just because that is what they used for the magazine project, but I happen to like its looks and enjoy working with Ash. However I couldn’t find Ash ply locally, so I decided to go with soft Maple for the shop cabinet and Hickory for the knitting supply cabinet. My favorite local plywood supplier, Drayton Plywood, carried Hickory in ¼” and ¾” sheets. I finished hers in time for Christmas, just got the drawer boxes done on mine today. I really got lucky with the grain pattern on the drawers in the lower cabinet, the sapwood just flows from drawer to drawer. I finished it with 3 coats of wipe-on poly followed by Johnson's paste wax. Thanks for looking.
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Originally Posted by Larry Frank
