bedroom suite

What more can I say Cathy, You do nice work. Congrats, Beautiful.

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congrat´s with the build Cathy
realy the waiting time worthy :-)
have a great relaxing weekend on top of it

take care
Dennis

Great build Cathy! I love the play of wood tones on your cherry drawers. It really takes half the fun in designing and building just a headboard than doing a full bed. Maybe the client will realize later on that their old bed frame does not match your beautiful work and will have a new frame made. Have a safe Happy Halloween Cathy!

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well that’s done

and very well too

congratulations !

now about those multi-wood doors …....

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Very nicely done!

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Outstanding work Cathy. The wood, color and craftswomanship are superb. Another happy customer and woodworker.

-- Mike, an American living in Norway.

I too like the way the grain is orientated… as you might realise… I like orientation of grain… but I also like the pulls being near the edge of the drawers allowing the timber to be the main focus..

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Is this the bedroom set you were commissioned to do (and so worried about) four weeks ago? If so, it really turned out wonderfully Cathy. Great work!

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Cathy, what a great set of furniture here!

I agree with Larry that setting the drawer pulls at the edge shows off the wood.

With that being said, how far apart are the pulls on the larger piece? I’m just wondering because we have an older, inherited set of drawers in our bedroom and in our case, you certainly have to use both pulls to get the drawer open. They are also set fairly wide apart. Your drawer guide/runner layout appears to be a better configuration than what we have, so I’m sure that really helps.

I ask that question because I may eventually build us a new bedroom set, but want to design around a couple of issues I’d rather not deal with in a new set. Thanks for your feedback (and anybody else’s feedback as well) regarding my question.

Hope you’re able to get a few days rest after this completion; you’ve earned it!

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Hi Jonathan,
For the large dresser, I really would not use wooden slides again. It’s just too much extra work to get the grooves in the drawer slides perfectly aligned with the wooden runners in the sides. Because of their size, the large drawers are more challenging to do well. I do like the action and feel of wooden slides for the bedside stands. The drawers on the bedside stands are 24 inches wide and the pulls are centered 2 inches from the edge. The drawers for the dresser are 34 inches wide and the pulls are 2 and 1/2 inches from the edge. I wanted to get as close to the wooden slides position as possible to avoid any potential wracking and that worked out well. Also the stopped grooves in the side act to stop the drawer from going in too far. You can rout that dado and then chisel out a little extra if necessary, but of course if you go to far you’ll have to add a wooden stop on the web frame in the back. I also used drawer tape from Rockler to keep the drawer bottom from sticking due to friction. It’s easy to install and works well. If you use the tape, remember to rout your groove in the drawer side slightly lower so it mates on the wooden runner in the cabinet side.

I did a few extra things to keep my boxes square. If the box, moves your in a heap of trouble with wood on wood. The inside of the boxes are made of 3/4 plywood. I added 3/4 solid mahogany (which was actually two pieces of 3/8 laminated together) to the ply to make a laminate- I needed that much to get the bevel on the corner. I did the same thing on the top of my boxes, in that case the laminate was 3/8 inch mahogany, plus 3/16 inch of wenge, and then another 3/8 of mahogany glued together with epoxy. I can assure you my boxes are not moving at all. The downside of the all the laminate work is they are heavy.

The inside was a web, which had it’s own issues especially when you want to glue the entire thing together. I considered using plywood dividers between all the drawers which might have saved me some time. With the web frame, you have to do all those mortise and tenon joints and keep them square. On the positive side, the web made it easy to see what was happening with the alignment of the drawers for fitting.

If you need any other details, let me know. Good luck with your pieces…....

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Nice work, on the bedroom suite.

That kind of glue-up is when a slow-set glue is worth its weight in gold. Nice pieces, glad it worked out!

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Good looking pieces. Very nicely done. Thanks for posting.

God Bless
tom

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Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful work Cathy. Thank you for sharing this with us.

GORGEOUS PIECE CATHY, YOU SHOULD BE VERY PROUD, LOVE THE FINISH.

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