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This next step involves making the side panels for each drawer bay.  When you open the side doors, I didn't want you to see the side of the drawers, so these thin panels just hide the drawer bays and give the door bays a solid backing. I resawed the maple with my new carbide tipped Lenox Trimaster blade.  Even though it cuts smooth and stays sharp, it can't fix kiln-dried lumber.  The resawn

I was pretty nervous about this part, but with a few helpers I managed to remove most of the human error.  The main thing is to just take your time, go slow, don't take any cuts without checking the fit first. I started by clamping a square-edged piece of scrap along the knife line.  This serves as a fence for my saw so I can't stray from the line in the wrong direction.  I decided to use my

As I've been slowly approaching a few dry fits, I started thinking about the order of assembly that will be required during the glue-up.  What needs to happen first? What has to happen last?, How much of it can be broken out into separate glue-ups? I took a photo of the dry-fit so far and showed it to two of my brothers.  I figure I'm probably going to need extra hands on the big day, so I

Clearly, these dowel rods go on the floor, Dad!

Don't screw this up! The fronts of the web frames divide the drawer bays.  I'm housing the dovetails into the front face of the legs so that you can see the joinery holding this particular part of the carcass together.  It's a really nice, fine furniture type detail and this is my first attempt at it, by hand or otherwise. Everything you're about to see, I learned from watching Tommy

This was a very repetitious phase of the project (100+ grooves, all with the same setting), but I still managed to stop for a moment to be mindful, to appreciate the fact that I'm incredibly lucky, that this is fun, and that those shavings and the act of making them are beautiful. I could have a physical or mental handicap preventing me from being able to craft things with my own two