I have a beautiful piece of figured cherry and would like to make a box (i guess essentially a small cabinet) with two drawers in the front – one drawer for my watches and one for my wife’s. I’ve not finalize dimensions but guess it would be about 5″ high, 5″ deep and about 12″ across the front.

I’d like not only to have the grain match going around the front to the sides, but also to cut out the drawer fronts and have the drawer front grain match the rest of the front of the box. So the front and sides, including the drawers, should like like one continuous piece of wood. (No one will see the back so a grain match there is not required.)

I’ve read somewhere that if you were, for example, making a side table with a drawer in the apron, you could bandsaw the apron lengthiwise into 3 pieces, use the center part of the middle piece for the drawer front, and carefully glue the apron back up and no one would know that the apron had been ripped into three. That seems OK in that situation – but here I need to match the grain on the front with the grain going around to the edges too – and cutting the front into three would pull the front grain out of alignment with the sides.

So how do I do this? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Mervyn