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pfollansbee posted: " 1680s cupboard, Massachusetts Historical Society The lower case of the cupboard houses 4 drawers. I started making them in the last few days. They are all oak, some period drawers have softwood bottoms but these use thin oak boards running front-to-b"
The lower case of the cupboard houses 4 drawers. I started making them in the last few days. They are all oak, some period drawers have softwood bottoms but these use thin oak boards running front-to-back.
The drawer sides are 3/4" thick and join the fronts with a half-blind dovetail on three of the drawers. At the back, a rabbet joint. Both joints are nailed. Yes, right through the dovetail. The bottoms tuck behind a rabbet in the drawer front. (I've yet to make the deep drawer, it has through dovetails front & back. Who knows why? Not me.)
These, like most 17th-century drawers in case furniture, are side-hung. Meaning there's a groove in the outside faces of the drawer sides that engages a runner set between the front and rear stiles. First step after prepping the stock is plowing the groove in the sides for the drawer runner. Mine's 1/2" wide, set roughly in the midst of the drawer side's height. It's about 5/16" deep.
plowing the groove in the drawer side
Me showing step-by-step of dovetailling is absurd. Go see someone who actually does it more than every other year or two. After plowing the groove, I laid out the single dovetail on each drawer side. I estimated the angle based on photos of the originals. Steep. Then sawed that out,
single dovetail
and transferred it to the end of the drawer front. Chopped that out.
Some back & forth fitting the joint. Below is good enough for me. All it needs is a rabbet in the drawer front, then nails through the dovetail.
Like this. Next step from here is installing the bottoms.
As I said, the bottoms run front-to-back (some 17th century shops ran them parallel to the drawer front). I rive out thin oak boards, aiming for 6"-9" wide. I rough-planed them, then aired them out in the sun to dry for a couple of weeks. Then I re-planed the top/inside surface and hewed and scrub-planed the bottom surface until they were either 3/8" thick or slightly less. The boards for the top & bottom drawers are about 20" long. For the smaller recessed drawers about 16" long. At this point, I just nailed boards to each end of each drawer - these serve to keep the drawer square & solid while I rive and plane more of this thin stock. Below I've lined up the board just inside the drawer side and bumped up to the rabbet in front. This board has not been squared off to its edges, so I set it in place and scribed the front end to trim it. Then I nailed it in place and trimmed the back end.
Here's the top drawer in place. I've been recording some videos about the drawers - it'll take a bit of doing. But in the end it will include the runners/grooves and the vee-shaped tongue & groove between the drawer bottoms.
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