Started on this stand earlier this year.

 

Now to make two drawers. I like to use sliding dovetails to attach faces. Sorry no pic but this is how it looks.

 

and when gluing drawers they need to be squared.

 

now this is where I hit the problem. Slides anytime 14 inch and the drawer is 14. So this little protrusion is in the way. 
 

So there are two solutions. One: cut a notch in that and make the dovetail connection one sided there. Two: extend the face of the box. Number two is the winner but a bit dirty. 

 

I choose to screw these and glue since it is a shop fixture. More tomorrow as the handles are turned but no pic today 

Good solution. The base it just plain cool. Is it an old piano stool? Retro steampunk in today's culture. Great upcycling. OK out of 21st century terms. Love it!!

Really like that sliding dovetail drawer front connection. Solution 2 is what I would have, also.

 

My only problem with drawers near the lathe is that I always forget to close them. The make great chip collectors 

I have no idea what this was in its former life. Turned the handles today. Hollowed the back for the finger hole and split it. 

 

 

then to add the handles and mount slides.

 

 

plan is for lathe sanding supplies, discs and maybe more . It just not big enough for all of it. 

Love the handles. Awesome design and color combination. Perfect match for the base.

Almost too nice to be a shop stand!   I'd love to come across a few antique bases that forgot what they were made for. Stare at them for a few days or weeks or years until they reveal a good use for themselves.  My grandfather had made a tall coffee table from a beautiful and fascinating sewing machine base and a slab of marble left over from a bank he had designed.  I remember asking him why it was so tall for a coffee table. His reply was that the base had insisted on not being cut shorter. 

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