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Chippendale-style Highboy

By FWW_Gallery, member Oct 24, 2012

Woodworker: David S. Beach

Beach built this Chippendale-style highboy working from just two photographs that appear in Southern Furniture 1680-1830: The Colonial Williamsburg Collection (Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1997). Made of black walnut as a primary wood and maple and poplar as secondary woods, the piece incorporates all of the traditional furniture elements: hand-cut dovetails, carvings, and turnings. Each of the drawers has cock beading and a half-mortise lock with a brass escutcheon. The finish is orange and blond shellac and wax.

Photo: David Beach

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