My fundamental problem is my family doesnt need/want any more furniture. Fact is both our 20 something boys and Sherrie and me we have way more furniture than we need. The problem for me is obvious - I enjoyed continuing to build furniture, however what am I going to do with it? I appreciate any advice or suggestions!
As a consequence of No room in the House, this project is intended for shop storage -only place where I control design choices. My intent is to use up some of the scraps of nice hardwoods in the shop to build a cabinet with lots of drawers for screws, fasteners, etc. This cabinet is roughly 48 long, X 15 wide X 32 high same height as my secondary workbench so as to be useful as an assembly table etc. Aside from the unique scrap wood drawer fronts, the rest the cabinet is Whitewood from the local Borg. Im not sure what it really is but seems to work like Eastern White Pine awesome for hand tools.
I didnt plan on posting this build so some build pictures are missing. Horizontal shelves are joined to carcass sides via, though, wedged mortises & tenon joinery sorry no pictures. Frankly, I focus on getting the mortise dimensions correct on the show surface which led to lots of blowout on the no show/ inside surfaces of the carcasses. If I had to do over again, would have plowed dadoes on inside to capture some of the blowout.
Here is surfacing/dimensioning tabletop and horizontal dividers. There is a 2 inch curve along front surface e.g. 13 inches wide at carcass sides and 15 inches wide in the middle. Really fun to shape with spoke shave.
Next step was creating sliding dovetail joint to join vertical carcass sides to top. Creating the male dovetail components was super easy using a dedicated ECE dovetail plane.
For the corresponding grooves I use an electric router with dovetail bit. Im not precious about hand tool techniques for me this is an ideal application for electric router. I intended for the top to overhang carcass by 1 Ό on sides and front, but somehow miscalculated the front. At the time seemed like I was ripping off more stock than usual for transition from rough to final dimensions- I should have paided attention to that suspicion! My design/build thought was greatest variation in overall carcass dimensions would be in through, wedged M&T joining carcass horizontal shelves to carcass sides, so I created the sliding dovetails connect carcass sides to top after assembly which worked out to good fit.