Will Neptune’s article “Sideboard Strategies” was a tremendous help in planning the construction…and I was fortunate to meet him as I was building it!  The drawers are subtly graduated from bottom to top.   The doors panels are a darker, more mineral heavy birds eye maple (solid panels).
   I used one coat of a natural danish oil, followed by several coats of a matte finish, water white polyurethane to try and keep color of the maple as light as possible.  A straight forward form, simple edge treatments, and minimalist hand-made pulls are meant to help keep the design simple and allow the figure of the wood to do the talking.  The top was one solid 8/4 curly maple board, ripped to insert a “racing stripe” of quarter sawn walnut in the center.  This dash of high contrast was a better solution than to marry a panel of three figured boards.  And the “racing stripe”  felt very much at home in the 1960’s architecture of the house.  Aside from managing the challenges of working in figured maple, I am really happy with my fitting of the wide pocket drawers and the offset knife hinges used to hang the doors.  The Drawer sides are walnut, Adding a little pop of surprise when you open the drawers.  Case is largely curly hard maple legs, with soft maple, q/s walnut and gaboon ebony used as the secondary woods.

66″x 17 3/4″ x 32 1/2″

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