Time to do another set of dressers for the kids. This is the second small production dresser project that I have done for them. The first set was made a few years ago. There is a lot of setup involved in doing the joinery and making 3 only takes about 1.5 – 2 times as long as making one.
I had made several other prior to these as well. Each of the dressers had some workflow improvements and details added. However the basic construction techniques were all very similar with dovetail carcass construction and dovetailed drawers.
The set of 3 turned out like this.
Each of the dressers was basically a variation on the theme to suit the tastes of Jessie, Elyse and David and to match the finishes on the beds that I had made for each of them. The finish is a mulit-step process of: dye, two wash coats of shellac, gel stain glaze, and 3 coats of pre-catalyzed lacquer.
This shows the drawer dovetails and the case divider dovetails. The full set of photos is on facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150116682232709.281934.657947708&type=1&l=462d6ebd47
The new design
The new dressers are all the same size but will share the differences in finish, hardware and drawer faces that the prior set had.
The case construction will be quite different however as this one will use mortise and tenon joinery rather than dovetails. This is also fully planned out in SketchUp vs. hand drawing as I had done in the past.
I plan to do the mortises and the drawer dovetails on the CNC router.