Project Information
This is my first project that I made something for me. I know, it is selfish, but I really needed a dresser! I made it with the help of WWGOA's George Vondriska and his online class. The carcass is made from 3/4 cherry plywood. A solid cherry fraceframe was made using pocket screws and glued to the carcass. The top is laminated cherry. I made the feet from laminated cherry blocks, cut at 30 degrees to match the 30 degree trim that transitions the top to the carcass. I used 1/2 baltic birch for the draw boxes with 1/4 baltic birch bottoms and attached solid cherry draw fronts. It was my first attempt at inset drawers. I finished it with Target Coatings Emtech 6000 satin production lacquer. I had used this finish on my miter station and cabinets and thought I liked it. I am sorry I used it for this project. I love cherry wood and have made a number of projects with it. I have always used Arm R Seal on cherry and it gives it such a warm golden look. I chose the lacquer because it dries fast and is waterbased. I sprayed it. If I could do it again, I would use Arm R Seal. This lacquer gives the dresser a cooler, white-ish look. I still like the dresser. In the class, George used soft close drawer slides. I think my carcass was slightly out of square and thus I had issues with the slides binding. I actually took the slides off of two drawers and it works really well. This project was challenging for me, but I learned quite a bit. I look forward to making a dresser for someone else in my family now. Thanks for looking.