I just completed these, it's a dresser and chest of drawers  stained to match (I hope) a headboard she already has. You may recognize the dresser from Wood magazine, and it's the second one I've built. The chest was just built to the same dimensions. The mirror is in the frame backwards for the pic. They are the same height, but sitting on blocks and dolies that make it appear different

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Fred,

These are very nice !

I'm sure your daughter will be very happy.

 

Larry

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them are nice, really nice.

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Very Nice!

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Fred, she will cherish them for a long time to come.  Well done, sir.

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OK Fred, first of all, outstanding!!!!

Second, and Third, and Fourth

Finish used?

Drawers slides, dovetails?

Where did you get your hardware?

And, what issue of WOOD can we find these!

You deserve a big atta boy Fred, that was no easy task, a ton of planing, fitting, and you have perfection, great job sir!!!

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Wow!!! What some beautiful work. Your daughter is going to be one happy girl. 

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i read my daughter's wedding gift   I picture in my head a very big baseball bat haha  it is beautiful she will love it

Now that is funny Ernest, sounds like an appropriate wedding gift to me! Father of two daughters I am going to loath the day they no longer have daddy first in their hearts and some other dude takes my place!!!

Ernest Keretz said:

i read my daughter's wedding gift   I picture in my head a very big baseball bat haha  it is beautiful she will love it

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Thanks guys. Wood published this in issue 180 (D/J 2004-2005) and I built one back then for my mother. Her's was just varnished since I don't like staining wood. I also built the night stand and headboard to match. In this case my daughter already had a commercial version of the headboard so I built the dresser and chest and tried to stain it to match that. BTW, The colors in the pic are really off, it looks much like a dark mission color in true light.But the finish schedule was an application of Transtint Mission Brown dye, followed by GF gel stain in dark mahogany. I did that so I could fill the pores on the top, for that the GF stain was mixed with Pore'O Pac grain filler and there was a coat of shellac between the stain/filler and the dye. It was all then topped with Cabot 8000 alkyd/soya formula varnish. I got this schedule from Steve Mickley over at the Wood forum. Anyway, there are no drawer slides. Wood does a lot of designs where the drawers just glide on UHMW tape, that's the case with this one. Also, this design has a plywood carcase built, then clad in the QSWO...and that makes a very heavy piece. I'd say each one is north of 150# with the drawers in place. The weight problem was compounded by me using thicker than designed wood...most of the oak is 7/8" and the poplar drawer boxes are 5/8" (I got really tired of planing that much wood and carrying the chips out.) The hardware is from LV and the same stuff Wood used in it's design. I may do yet one more for our own house...but it won't be stained, just natural oak.

John Morris said:

OK Fred, first of all, outstanding!!!!

Second, and Third, and Fourth

Finish used?

Drawers slides, dovetails?

Where did you get your hardware?

And, what issue of WOOD can we find these!

You deserve a big atta boy Fred, that was no easy task, a ton of planing, fitting, and you have perfection, great job sir!!!

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Thanks guys. Wood published this in issue 180 (D/J 2004-2005) and I built one back then for my mother. Her's was just varnished since I don't like staining wood. I also built the night stand and headboard to match. In this case my daughter already had a commercial version of the headboard so I built the dresser and chest and tried to stain it to match that. BTW, The colors in the pic are really off, it looks much like a dark mission color in true light.But the finish schedule was an application of Transtint Mission Brown dye, followed by GF gel stain in dark mahogany. I did that so I could fill the pores on the top, for that the GF stain was mixed with Pore'O Pac grain filler and there was a coat of shellac between the stain/filler and the dye. It was all then topped with Cabot 8000 alkyd/soya formula varnish. I got this schedule from Steve Mickley over at the Wood forum. Anyway, there are no drawer slides. Wood does a lot of designs where the drawers just glide on UHMW tape, that's the case with this one. Also, this design has a plywood carcase built, then clad in the QSWO...and that makes a very heavy piece. I'd say each one is north of 150# with the drawers in place. The weight problem was compounded by me using thicker than designed wood...most of the oak is 7/8" and the poplar drawer boxes are 5/8" (I got really tired of planing that much wood and carrying the chips out.) The hardware is from LV and the same stuff Wood used in it's design. I may do yet one more for our own house...but it won't be stained, just natural oak.

I built these a couple years ago, I think they are part of that same series.  Once I get my shop moved to Ohio and set up again I'm hoping to move on and build the rest of the set.

Yep, those are the ones...

Roy Boomershine said:

I built these a couple years ago, I think they are part of that same series.  Once I get my shop moved to Ohio and set up again I'm hoping to move on and build the rest of the set.

Too much character in it.

An excellent piece! 

            

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Your daughter is going to be very happy. Those turned out great! 

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Those are lovely gifts!

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Fred those are so beautiful. She will love them forever. Those will truly be heirlooms. I built the same one years ago when it was published. I did it out of poplar and stained it black. I then adjusted the plan and made my wife a lingerie chest. I also did the night stand. I built a pencil post bed instead of the one the had. Picture of mine are on my website, link is below. I am on my iPad and can't do pictures or links from it. I called lee valley when I did mine and got the same hardware in pewter since the stain was black.

I love the color on these and the extra drawers you put in the second one.

Great job, and thanks for sharing it here with us!

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nice work

Fred here is a picture my dresser. I left off the corbels and didn't put the mirror on it. I also did a lingerie chest and the night stand. Sorry the pictures are small, but I had to snip them from my website.

The bed can be seen at here.

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That's nice, John. What's the finish on them??

Btw, thanks for the compliments, Guys. I think the may be overdone since my pic looks like crud. They are much nicer than I can depict in a photo. I may try some more, maybe in sunlight to see if I can get them to look more like real life.

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