Now that the Covid-19 Lockdown is coming to an end, I have finished my last Lockdown Project.
A few years ago I found a spectacular curly maple board in the Big Box Home Improvement Store (BBHIS), and I bought it not knowing what I would use it for. Curly maple is my favorite.
While we have been locked down, I designed and built a small cabinet out of that board, and this is the result.
This was all done with hand tools, partly because I have no interest in monstrous, expensive, screaming power tools, but mostly to preserve all 10 fingers in their current condition.
It is only 15 1/2″ tall and 9″ wide because that is how much wood I had. So there isn’t much size to it, but it might be useful for storing curios and other small items.
The drawers are constructed using traditional techniques, such as solid wood bottom panels and half-blind dovetails on the fronts of the drawers.
Of course, the whole carcass is dovetailed together. I dovetail everything.
The drawer knobs are made from the same fancy wood as the rest of the cabinet.
It is a sturdy little box, and the figure in the wood is striking.
It was a fun project, and now it is done, along with the Lockdown.
Yay.
No!
No no no no…. noooooo!
Broken tools! Sharp tools! Visits to the ER!
Nooooooo.