This is the last post of my build of a Chippendale Lowboy taken from Franklin Gottschall's book "Furniture Masterpieces", in cherry with pine secondary wood and with a few small changes to the design, primarily adding a solid wood frame and panel back in place of the plywood in the original.
The finish is Watco Cherry oil/varnish with some Trans Tint "antique maple" dye to make it a little more brown and take out some of the red of the cherry, followed by blonde shellac and paste wax. Hardware is from Lee Valley. I also lined the drawers with some cedar, but didn't get any pictures of that.
Altogether took me about 5-6 months of weekends. I am a novice carver and this piece involve the most carving I've ever done which took the bulk of the time. This was my first attempt at ball and claw feet. The carving was hard on my eyes and not my favorite part of this project, although I did begin to enjoy it more towards the end. I started with the bottom apron, then the feet, and finally the central drawer. My next project will have little if any carving and be big enough so it's not so hard on the eyes (I'm not as young as I used to be).
I apologize for going overboard on the pictures, but I'm pretty pleased with how this turned out – I even got the Bosses approval to put it in the house eventually. For now, it's going in my office.
Thanks for looking, Mike
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