shilala
12-12-2012, 03:20 PM
My wife wanted a new lingerie dresser for Christmas, her old one was too small and too cheesy to live with anymore.
I built her a new one, all 3/4 cherry with some gummy cherry on the sides to give it a little interest. The drawers are of resawn soft maple, box jointed. The drawer bottoms are oak ply.
I threw together a number of incarnations of the drawer fronts and she fortunately loved the one you see here.
It turned out as a wonderfully heavy piece, built for a lot of lifetimes. An heirloom to pass along for generations to come.
I cut all the 3/4 pieces on the Shopbot, as well as the drawer fronts. The drawer boxes I made on the table saw with a new box jig I bought and a new box dado set. That was truly a joy, I'm thrilled with the investment. I also found it very necessary to pick up a new Festool finish sander, if you get my drift. ;)
The Shopbot took so much painstaking labor out of this job that I was shocked. Using Aspire to design the dresser and make the part files was a breeze, and took out all the mistakes I generally make with graph paper and pencils. I took time to make schematics of every elevation of the dresser because it was so easy. It made reference so simple and so painless, not fumbling through tons of drawings.
There is no substitute for good tools or a happy wife. :)
Thank You to all of you for teaching me, giving me tips, and sharing your experience. Special thanks to Brady for making me read a bunch of sh1t I didn't want to read. Lol
Here she is...
http://i925.photobucket.com/albums/ad96/scottshilala/9E61865D-5C7C-4062-90A5-8484A2215A86-2526-00000B6090E9AF72.jpg
I built her a new one, all 3/4 cherry with some gummy cherry on the sides to give it a little interest. The drawers are of resawn soft maple, box jointed. The drawer bottoms are oak ply.
I threw together a number of incarnations of the drawer fronts and she fortunately loved the one you see here.
It turned out as a wonderfully heavy piece, built for a lot of lifetimes. An heirloom to pass along for generations to come.
I cut all the 3/4 pieces on the Shopbot, as well as the drawer fronts. The drawer boxes I made on the table saw with a new box jig I bought and a new box dado set. That was truly a joy, I'm thrilled with the investment. I also found it very necessary to pick up a new Festool finish sander, if you get my drift. ;)
The Shopbot took so much painstaking labor out of this job that I was shocked. Using Aspire to design the dresser and make the part files was a breeze, and took out all the mistakes I generally make with graph paper and pencils. I took time to make schematics of every elevation of the dresser because it was so easy. It made reference so simple and so painless, not fumbling through tons of drawings.
There is no substitute for good tools or a happy wife. :)
Thank You to all of you for teaching me, giving me tips, and sharing your experience. Special thanks to Brady for making me read a bunch of sh1t I didn't want to read. Lol
Here she is...
http://i925.photobucket.com/albums/ad96/scottshilala/9E61865D-5C7C-4062-90A5-8484A2215A86-2526-00000B6090E9AF72.jpg