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Six drawer dresser

comments (3) October 23rd, 2010 in Reader's Gallery

Cannikin Cannikin, member
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My wife and I are having our first baby in a little less than a week and, being a woodworker, figured it was my duty to build something for him. I found a nice dresser in the Dec 2008 issue of Wood Magazine (sorry) - a six drawer tall dresser. We wanted it to double as a changing table so I modified the design in Sketchup to work as a side-by-side.

The top, sides, drawer fronts are Sapele. The drawer sides/backs are Douglas Fir (300 years old!) and Poplar for the drawer dividers. The drawers are NK style so they only ride on a small runner at each outside corner. I got lucky enough to get all the drawer fronts out of one huge 12' board of quartersawn Sapele!

For the finish I've got five coats of a tung oil/boiled linseed oil/varnish mix and then a buff of Feed 'n' Weed. I was thinking of maybe a coat of paste wax for the top in case of any changing accidents. :)

Here's a quick video walkthrough: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNvZ1fq8Dtk&hd=1

And a series of photos of the whole construction here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cannikin/sets/72157624653668266

Final joinery tally: 16 dados, 8 mortise and tenons, 24 dovetails.


Design or Plan used: My own design
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rboutdoors rboutdoors writes: Any chance you still have the Sketch Up plans? I am wanting to build a dresser for a changing table.
Posted: 7:37 pm on December 17th

Buche Buche writes: Very nice, especially the consistent grain of the drawer fronts. Did you use plywood for the drawer bottoms? it looks as if the grain runs from the front to back , not side to side as should be in a solid wood drawer bottom. Congrats on the new addition!(The child, not the dresser;-)

cheers
Posted: 8:43 am on October 26th

dminnery dminnery writes: That is very nice, did you think about making the drawers asymmetrical? I.E. 3 on one side, 4 on the other?
Beautiful wood, your child starts out with an heirloom, congratulations!
Posted: 10:58 pm on October 23rd

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