My wife and I are having our first baby in a little less than a week and, being a woodworker, figured it was my duty to build something for him. I found a nice dresser in the Dec 2008 issue of Wood Magazine (sorry) – a six drawer tall dresser. We wanted it to double as a changing table so I modified the design in Sketchup to work as a side-by-side.

The top, sides, drawer fronts are Sapele. The drawer sides/backs are Douglas Fir (300 years old!) and Poplar for the drawer dividers. The drawers are NK style so they only ride on a small runner at each outside corner. I got lucky enough to get all the drawer fronts out of one huge 12′ board of quartersawn Sapele!

For the finish I’ve got five coats of a tung oil/boiled linseed oil/varnish mix and then a buff of Feed ‘n’ Weed. I was thinking of maybe a coat of paste wax for the top in case of any changing accidents. 🙂

Here’s a quick video walkthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNvZ1fq8Dtk&hd=1

And a series of photos of the whole construction here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cannikin/sets/72157624653668266

Final joinery tally: 16 dados, 8 mortise and tenons, 24 dovetails.

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