I was going through my computer today, trying to organize the photos and came across these photos of a project that I had done awhile back. There's more photos somewhere but these were the ones that I can found/share. This project started with a view of a "Chippendale Bible Box" in Yale's American Furniture collection. I has some smaller pieces of walnut and though that I could use them to duplicate this chest(photo #1). Here's the results...... my only regret is that I didn't match the front board very well! Everything was hand planed down during the assembly and the dovetails are all hand cut(the only way I do it).

 

Edited February 20, 20206 yr by FrederickH

Beautiful!!!

Great job . With finish the mismatch on he front goes away.

Both pieces are absolutely beautiful and display wonderful craftsmanship.  I noticed something different about the feet that I have never seen before.  I would like to see how that was made.  

Excellent worok, everybody else used all the other good word thingys.  

 

Like Steve I would like to know about the feet and how they were done.

That's a gorgeous piece Frederick.

Wonderful workmanship.........great just great.

Like all your work..just stupendous.

 

i added some tags so that your gorgeous work can be more easily found. Feel free to add more!

9 hours ago, FlGatorwood said:

Both pieces are absolutely beautiful and display wonderful craftsmanship.  I noticed something different about the feet that I have never seen before.  I would like to see how that was made.  

I'm not sure of what's different about the feet? The feet/base molding are made from 1 piece of wood, except for the rear feet. The two front corners are dovetailed, then mitered at the moldings before being nailed(small square brads) to the chest. I think that I have a sample piece of molding that I can show you.

1 hour ago, Ron Altier said:

Wonderful workmanship.........great just great.

Yes, indeed it is.  Thanks for sharing.   Danl

3 hours ago, FrederickH said:

I'm not sure of what's different about the feet? The feet/base molding are made from 1 piece of wood, except for the rear feet. The two front corners are dovetailed, then mitered at the moldings before being nailed(small square brads) to the chest. I think that I have a sample piece of molding that I can show you.

Here's my construction detail of the bracket feet/moldings. This would be for a right-side or left-front foot/molding. As you can see, it's a simple method of producing molding and feet. I use this for most of my small chests and have even added a rabbet to the backside so that the chest can set down inside of that.