Drawer Two – Part 4
2013.10.27
Out of the four sets of half blind dovetails on two drawers, only one ended up with reasonably tight baselines. The others all had gaps (and that one had gaps elsewhere). I’m pretty confident that I transferred the marks accurately, especially on the second drawer where the shallow rabbet helped, so I think I must be accidentally paring past the baseline.
They say experts know how to hide their mistakes. I have read about inserting slivers of end grain material that matches the pin board to fill these gaps. Well, it should be expected that an amateur that makes such a mistake in the first place would only do an amateur job of trying to hide it. I guess it looks better… at a distance…
Ah well. On to drawer stops and then beveling the drawer bottom. On the first drawer, I used a straight rabbet at the front. On this one I beveled that as well. After cutting the bottom to length, I drilled an oversize hole and attached it with a screw to the drawer back.
Drawer Two III