Martin Lutz
01-10-2006, 11:57 AM
I want to share with you my latest project. I completed this Quilted Maple and Cherry bedroom set just before Thanksgiving. It consists of a large chest of drawers ( 14 drawers), a lingerie chest with a jewelry box insert, and two nightstands. A king size sleigh bed and wall mirror wil follow. They were a lot of fun to build and the quilted maple just exploded when I put the finish on.
Some construction notes for those interested:
all of the cases are built traditionally with dovetail joinery and are solid cherry with the exception of the tops ( 1" MDF and veneer).
They have aromatic cedar dust panels.
The constructionis designed to allow for seasonal movement of the panels.
The interior web frames are solid motise and tenon in the front and sliding M and T in the back. ( Waxed)
The bases are attached by segmented sliding DT's.
The miters on the top trim are reinforced with splines in the front and a half lap/miter in the back.
All of the backs are finished frame and panel. They are removable for maintenance throught the years.
The drawer fronts are cut from wide cherry allowing two rows of drawers to have fronts that show the figure flowing one to the other. This really shows up on the big case.
All the drawers are dovetailed solid cherry with Accuride full extension, low profile slides.
I have yet to build the jewelry box insert for the lingerie chest but the brass necklace hangers are on the back of the doors.
FINISH: I sanded to 320g and followed that with BLO inside and out. The cases were sprayed with 4 coats satin NCL in and out (except the cedar). The tops screamed for clarity so I used gloss lacquer, I used the lacquer as a grain filler, sanding between coats, until the tops were flat and then sanded to 2000g, rottenstone polish, 3M finishing compound applied with automotive polisher. YEE HAH. I am not a big gloss finish fan but I really wanted clarity and to showcase the Quilted Maple.
I had them photographed. The photos still need some touch up.Thanks for looking.
Some construction notes for those interested:
all of the cases are built traditionally with dovetail joinery and are solid cherry with the exception of the tops ( 1" MDF and veneer).
They have aromatic cedar dust panels.
The constructionis designed to allow for seasonal movement of the panels.
The interior web frames are solid motise and tenon in the front and sliding M and T in the back. ( Waxed)
The bases are attached by segmented sliding DT's.
The miters on the top trim are reinforced with splines in the front and a half lap/miter in the back.
All of the backs are finished frame and panel. They are removable for maintenance throught the years.
The drawer fronts are cut from wide cherry allowing two rows of drawers to have fronts that show the figure flowing one to the other. This really shows up on the big case.
All the drawers are dovetailed solid cherry with Accuride full extension, low profile slides.
I have yet to build the jewelry box insert for the lingerie chest but the brass necklace hangers are on the back of the doors.
FINISH: I sanded to 320g and followed that with BLO inside and out. The cases were sprayed with 4 coats satin NCL in and out (except the cedar). The tops screamed for clarity so I used gloss lacquer, I used the lacquer as a grain filler, sanding between coats, until the tops were flat and then sanded to 2000g, rottenstone polish, 3M finishing compound applied with automotive polisher. YEE HAH. I am not a big gloss finish fan but I really wanted clarity and to showcase the Quilted Maple.
I had them photographed. The photos still need some touch up.Thanks for looking.