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   9619 | Dec 18, 2010 03:59pm | #1

   Hey Dog,

   What a great chest of drawers from reclaimed barnwood.   You keep this up and Obama is going to give you an award for being such a recycler.   Great work.  

   Mel

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   Westchester | Dec 18, 2010 05:49pm | #2

   Good use of wood

   Construction is similar to early golden oak furniture -

   We have a few older pieces in that style we restored and they have stood up well with my Family -

   Thanks for posting

   SA

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   whitedogstr8leg | Dec 21, 2010 06:43pm | #3

   Just the way i do things

   This system of chest of drawers has worked for me for quite a while.     Rather than deal with solid ( and moving) panel sides, a frame and panel system works better.    I've used just regular pine, this old barn wood Doug. Fir, Pallet wood oaks, and a few other woods.   Some may use a groove along the posts to install the side pieces, I just use a rabbet.    The rest of the pieces then just get nailed and glued in the rabbets.   Sometimes, a piece of 1/4" plywood is used as panels. 

   I use web-frames for the drawers to slide on, no metal guides are used.  Face-frames are just long enough to go between the two front posts, and wide enough to cover both the web-frame edges and the kickers, about 1-1/2" wide.   Top and bottom face frame pieces are a bit wider.  Top one is usually 2" wide, and the bottom one is wide enough to allow for scollop work. 

   Mostly 3/4 overlay drawer fronts, one this one I used flush fronts.   A stop of sorts sets how deep the drawer goes into the case.   I set the drawer depth by adding a screw into the backpart of the web-frame.  Drawer hits the screw when the drawer is closed up.  A few more pictures: 

   
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   whitedogstr8leg | Jan 19, 2011 02:35pm | #4

   Sold!

   Not long after I made this, I put it out for a yard  sale.      More of a way to draw people to the sale, making some "Drive-bys" actually stop and look around.     A fellow looked the chest of drawers over.      It turns out he was just back from Iraq, got married and was looking for furniture to set up housekeeping with.     I asked him IF $30 was too much.   "NOPE!"  came the answer.   Now this Marine has a hand-built piece of furniture to start his married life with.