You may remember there two large white oak dressers I posted several weeks ago.
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I built them last year. A couple of days ago I finished the companion bedside cabinets to go with them.
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They are built very much like the dressers with a few exceptions. I didn't have enough rift sawn white oak to make the sides out of solid stock so they are veneered with shop sawn veneer just like the tops. It took a lot longer to do that but the benefit, besides conserving material, was that I could attach the top to the sides without having to accommodate any seasonal wood movement issues. I used a different dovetail for the drawers because it was easier.
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It looks more factory made but I'm fine with that. I also put a chamfer on the top edges of the drawers and instead of finishing them with wiped on shellac, like I did with the dressers, I made the bottoms removable and then sprayed everything with a coat of shellac and then two coats of the GF Enduro Clear Poly that I used on the cabinets. As you can see, I also added a little sliding tray in the top drawer. The drawers ride on Blum Tandem with BluMotion slides just like with the dressers.
Another thing I did differently with these cabinets was to add leveling feet in all four corners. I had to add some large shims under some corners of the dressers to level them and I didn't want to have to do that again. I used internal levelers at the front, that press up into the sides. There's a little hex wrench that raises/lowers the leveler. Here's a shot of how it's accessed on the inside of the side at the front of the cabinet.
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I used a different style leveler at the rear that is accessed through the inside of the cabinet.
Thanks for looking.
John