Classic Shaker Cupboard with project plans
Handsome storage cabinet is comfortable in any room
Synopsis: This large Shaker piece combines a cupboard and a chest of drawers. The carcase is straightforward dovetailed construction with a three-sided face frame added to the front. The drawers feature traditional hand-cut dovetails and the frame-and-panel doors use pinned mortise-and-tenon construction. A simple but effective center guide supports the three widest drawers and prevents them from binding. Details such as adjustable shelving, a mitered base, a frame-and-panel back, and a cove profile on the top complete the piece.
In FWW #206, I wrote about a low chest of drawers and focused on its case construction, drawer runner system, and using a shopmade jig and router to cut dadoes and dovetail slots in the carcase. Since then, a client asked me to build a large Shaker cupboard to use in a kitchen.
This piece (and this article) picks up where “Shaker Chest of Drawers” left off. I’ll expand on how I…
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Comments
This looks like a great project, but I have a few questions:
Did the Shakers make this with adjustable shelves, and if so, would the have used wooden pegs instead of pins or would they have used notched vertical sticks or some other mechanical method to allow for adjustable shelves? I look forward to building this cupboard.
Good question.
https://www.finewoodworking.com/1996/10/01/supporting-shelves
Love the overall form and the build itself, not a huge fan of a dowel functioning as a drawer guide.
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