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   Ruth | Oct 25, 2005 04:45pm | #1

   February 1989 Secret Compartments by Chris Becksvoort A furnituremaker's cache box Case pieces with drawers and desks with pigeonholes lend themselves best to hidden compartments. But tables, beds, clocks, and lamps also can contain concealed sections. The author describes tricks of the trade that he used in his own work. December 2002 Secret Spaces + A gallery of secrets by Mark Schofield Create hidden compartments to suit any style of furniture Hidden compartments reached their zenith in high-style 18th-century furniture, whose elaborate carvings and masses of drawers and cubbyholes made it relatively easy to conceal secret places. Here are close-up looks at a highboy with some sneaky spots. These articles can be purchased in the Fine Woodworking Online Archive.

    

   Ruth Dobsevage
   Taunton New Media

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   Ricks503 | Oct 25, 2005 11:19pm | #2

   If you have any finials, like on bed posts, you can do a circular threaded hole and have the finial screw on. 

   a simple one is a false back on a drawer. tip the drawer out and you have a small space.

   Another for a drawer is to put in a false bottom. the back edge of the sides that the false bottom sits on should be tapered to the rear on the back 1"-1 1/2"  to open or lift the false bottom, press on the rear edge and the front lifts up.

    

   all kinds of possibilities

   1 - measure the board twice, 2 - cut it once, 3 - measure the space where it is supposed to go        4 - get a new board and go back to step 1