Popular Post FrederickH Posted February 20, 2020 Popular Post Report Share Posted February 20, 2020 (edited) 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, 2020 by FrederickH DuckSoup, Gerald, p_toad and 6 others 8 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lew Posted February 20, 2020 Report Share Posted February 20, 2020 Beautiful!!! Gunny, FlGatorwood and FrederickH 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerald Posted February 20, 2020 Report Share Posted February 20, 2020 Great job . With finish the mismatch on he front goes away. Gunny, FrederickH, FlGatorwood and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlGatorwood Posted February 20, 2020 Report Share Posted February 20, 2020 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. Cal and Gunny 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunny Posted February 20, 2020 Report Share Posted February 20, 2020 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. FlGatorwood, Cal and FrederickH 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cal Posted February 20, 2020 Report Share Posted February 20, 2020 That's a gorgeous piece Frederick. FrederickH 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Altier Posted February 20, 2020 Report Share Posted February 20, 2020 Wonderful workmanship.........great just great. Cal and FrederickH 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene Howe Posted February 20, 2020 Report Share Posted February 20, 2020 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! FrederickH, John Morris and Cal 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrederickH Posted February 20, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2020 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. Cal 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danl Posted February 20, 2020 Report Share Posted February 20, 2020 1 hour ago, Ron Altier said: Wonderful workmanship.........great just great. Yes, indeed it is. Thanks for sharing. Danl FrederickH and Cal 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrederickH Posted February 20, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2020 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. p_toad, Cal and Gerald 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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