Project Information
A pair of Shaker style nightstands. I was building these for spec, so I decided to have one painted to showcase the different options, one is solid cherry, one is painted with Old Fashioned Milk Paint pitch black. Features tapered legs, mortise and tenon joinery, hand cut dovetails, and finished all surfaces with smoothing plane. The drawer pulls were turned from 8/4 cherry on the drill press…I have no lathe yet so I used Christian Becksvoort's method.
Cherry has become more and more of a joy for me to work with as I progress in skills and especially since I have honed my sharpening (no pun intended).
These drawers ended up putting me only over 100 finished dovetails for the year, so I'm a little behind. These are also the first projects I completed after getting my new tablesaw in the shop.
Cherry has become more and more of a joy for me to work with as I progress in skills and especially since I have honed my sharpening (no pun intended).
These drawers ended up putting me only over 100 finished dovetails for the year, so I'm a little behind. These are also the first projects I completed after getting my new tablesaw in the shop.
