OOPS! Nice recovery

[Nancy Laird]

The pictures show an oak dresser built my LOML and his best friend. The OOPS came when they were preparing the side(end) panels. The were jointing the boards to be joined and discovered that they had removed too much material, making the panel narrower than they wanted. So...a few 1/2-inch strips of Brazilian cherry interspersed with the oak solved the problem. It's solid oak--no ply. Drawers are 9-ply "apple ply". It's 6 feet long and heavy as lead! Takes two burly men to move it without the drawers! Finished with J.E. Moser natural, sanding sealer and three coats of sprayed lacquer.

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Comments welcome. Thanks for looking.

Nancy

[Ed Nelson978]

That's really nice. The "recovery" is excellent!

[Dennis Peacock]

Wow Nancy.!!!! That's pretty. Looks nice and heavy as well. ;)
Beautiful piece and a nice save on the end panels. :D

[Robert Mahon]

As a relatively new Woodworker, I learned early-on that 1 of the secrets to making a nice job of it is to learn how to cover your mistakes.
Now that I've been at it for about 5 years, I've become quite expert at covering my mistakes.
Practice makes perfect.

Good job!

[Karl Laustrup]

Good looking dresser Nancy. Great cover too. ;) :D

Karl

[Dan Mages]

Its not if you cheat... its how well you do it. ;)

Nice save!

Dan

[Bruce Page]

Nancy, that’s a very nice piece, very solid looking. The cherry adds a nice touch of class – I wouldn’t call it a opps at all!

[Jim Becker]

Very creative recovery, Nancy. It's made the piece even more unique, too!

[Ted Shrader]

Nancy -

A wise man told me once. "You can always tell a good "carpenter" by how well he covers his mistakes." How true!

That is a very nice piece.

Regards,
Ted

[Al Willits]

Pretty impressive piece of furniture, can't tell there were any mistakes made, so I'd consider it a keeper..

Al

[Nancy Laird]

Thanks everyone for your nice comments. David and Mike (the friend) do appreciate your kind words. The sentiment "You can always tell a good "carpenter" by how well he covers his mistakes" is one that hubby has drummed into me for years--and I think we do it pretty well.

The dresser is a Christmas gift for Mike's wife (although she already knows about it), and is the first of five or six pieces for their bedroom - dresser, chest, headboard, two night tables, and desk (I think). Now that they've done the cherry on the dresser, correcting the OOPS, he has to do the rest of the pieces the same way. She hasn't seen the actual dresser, just some pictures, but she really liked the stripe, and she's going to be blown away tonight when she sees the real thing.

Cheers, all!

Nancy

[John Gregory]

The project looks great. Good job and good save. And like many have said, everyone faces fixing their "oops" And some times the fix makes the project every better or more unique.