Comments on: Nine Days & Nine Dovetailed Drawers to Go (plus Feet & Moulding)

By: Darrell

Darrell — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 04:36:49 +0000

Where would this local lumberyard be?

By: renaissanceww

renaissanceww — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:25:40 +0000

Don’t ask me how I know this, but make doubly sure the finish is cured before trying to wrap it.

By: bobbollin

bobbollin — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 01:48:42 +0000

Lovely work! You have convinced me that I do need Glen’s DVD.

By: Megan Fitzpatrick

Megan Fitzpatrick — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 18:45:47 +0000

John,
i would love to be using a miter box, and Christopher has offered me a nice one…but i foolishly left it at his house, and he’s out of town this weekend — oops.

By: Fred West

Fred West — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 16:46:49 +0000

Megan, what a great job especially considering you did not anticipate being able to make it in time. I have to agree with John Cashman about a Millers Falls miter box and a shooting board. That way you could change your exercise program from legwork to arm and shoulder, Either way, your Mother is getting a beautiful spice box made by her daughter. You just can’t have a better Christmas present than that.:o

By: J. Pierce

J. Pierce — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 16:14:51 +0000

That is looking very terrific! Now I feel kind of silly because I’ve been rushing to wrap up a dovetailed keepsake box for my mom during a couple of days off. Granted, I’m not cutting it nearly as close as you are, and I did have to do all my resawing and thicknessing by hand – but still, wow, I feel a little silly.

(either way, I finally perfected my technique with the moving filletster plane)

Regardless, congrats! Looking darn good.

By: John Cashman

John Cashman — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 15:10:33 +0000

Very nice. But if I may, a Millers Falls miter box and shooting board will save you a lot of running up and down two flights of stairs.

Please post more of your progress. If only you had a blog of your own on which to post . . .

By: Megan Fitzpatrick

Megan Fitzpatrick — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 15:07:27 +0000

Merely a matter of practicality due to the timing. I will never give up my smoother for an ROS.

By: Megan Fitzpatrick

Megan Fitzpatrick — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 15:04:05 +0000

with its multitude of spider webs, nitre-encrusted stone walls and one bare swinging lightbulb? no thanks!

By: pmcgee

pmcgee — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 12:40:41 +0000

Or … you could just work in the cellar …