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Outfitting a Desk Drawer

Tim Killen, contributor

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The following video shows how I outfitted a desk drawer. It includes placing the mortise lock and creating a pencil/pen trough. The placement of the lock is facilitated by prior modeling of the actual hardware. Early In a furniture project, I typically order my hardware. This gives me the opportunity of modeling it and including in the SketchUp file. In this way mortises and recesses are accurate in the model before I go to the shop.

In this particular desk, the drawer front is extra thick to account for the deep recess for the embedded handle pull. This thickness allows a mortise lock. Normally my drawer locks are not fully mortised rather recessed into the back face of the drawer front.

Here is a picture of the desk with the end drawer partially withdrawn. Note the drawer lock and the pen/pencil trough.

Here is the model of the mortise lock.

And here is the model of the trough.

In the video, I incorrectly drew the trough at full depth of the drawer. Nevertheless, the procedure is and steps for SketchUp are correct.

Here is the shop construction......

Tim

http://killenwood.com

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Killenwood writes: RalphBarker: thanks, I tried hard to replicate Modesto Ash. The trough is old growth redwood, and the drawer bottom is sugar pine.

Tim
Posted: 9:53 am on September 28th

RalphBarker writes: The surface texture in the last drawing is very realistic, Tim. ;-)
Posted: 8:34 am on September 28th

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