Good Day To The Creek!
Well after a little over 7 months my most labor intensive project is pretty much done. For me this was really a labor of love. Mainly for the amount of time that has gone into it.
It all started with the idea of making a few carcasses add a couple of drawers, some uppers and I would have a little storage for my hand tools. As things unfolded this project kind of grew legs and became larger and larger.
And here is the fruit of my many nights in my shop.
It has taken long enough that the first drawers and carcasses are darkening up nicely. May be a while but the rest should catch up.
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48 drawers. All hand cut and all true ½ blinds.
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4 sizes of drawers. The deepest being 11 ½ inches. I have never done ½ blinds that big and it was a ton of chopping.
There must be a over 35 feet of hand cut dovetails in these drawers.
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I was building as I went with really no idea how it would end up.
But a little planning got all my LN hand planes into a new home.
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And the saw till that was built a year ago was incorporated into the corner. It has darkened up very nicely.
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12 or 14 so sheets of cherry ply.
A bunch of board feet of 4/4 cherry.
Birch and aspen for the drawer sides.
Baltic birch ply for the drawer bottoms.
A big bag of pulls, knobs and hinges from LV.
And a bunch of quarts of BLO.
The build thread was done over in the neander section. Mainly as a little tutorial on handcut dovetails. The link to that thread is http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=100584
Thanks for taking a look.
I hope everyone got a little shop time this weekend...
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