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oak bedroom drawers

sunnybob

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My attempt so far to make a 2 drawer bedside table;

I took the pictures quickly, and it is not wonky as the picture makes it out to be.

The top has come out well (at least I think so)
Still waiting for final finishing and fitting on the drawer fronts
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That looks super. I'd misunderstood your previous posts about the oak top. For some reason I thought you were putting an oak top as a replacement for an existing piece of furniture.
 
I dont have the skills or the tools or the patience to do complicated joinery, so I am quite pleased with my first attempt at actual "furniture", even if it is minimalistic. :lol:

The good thing about making stuff out of sticks is that there is minimal wastage. I reckon apart from sawdust I havent wasted more than 5% of the wood in offcuts. My trinket bandsaw boxes can waste as much as 40% on each.

I cant make up my mind about oak.
It looks good, no doubt about that, but its an absolute pig to flatten. Those pieces have been through the thicknesser, then sanded with 40, 60, 80, 120, 180, and 240. The most sanding I have ever done.
I thought I was done and applied a coat of poly. Next day the grain has risen up out of the wood and I had to go through 120 to 240 all over again.
The poly didnt seem to sit well on the oak, so second time round I have used shellac. 2 coats so far and its looking better then the poly did.
Once its finished I will do my best to take a better picture.
 
Well done Bob. Now, that didn't hurt, did it? :)
 
Bob, I'm surprised that you are having that much difficulty flattening the oak.

Whn my oak/ash/whatever comes off the P/T it needs only the merest of touch ups with 120 or perhaps 80 at most and its no real effort.
What sort of condition are the knives in your P/T. I don't if you have reliable places on Cyprus to get them gound but it might be worth a thought?

Bob
 
Mike, its amazing what you can without a plane or chisels :lol: :lol: :lol:
Thicknesser, table saw, mitre saw, router table, power sander, pillar drill, and some hand sanding, gets us special needs people in the makers arena, even if it is at first year apprentice level :D 8-)
Just for once the bandsaw didnt get a look in.

Bob, I havent worked with oak before, so I'm comparing it to walnut and bubinga, which I can smooth quite quickly on the first run through.
The main carcass and drawer fronts were made from a 200 x 50 mm plank ripped and thicknessed and sanded, which all went to plan.
The top was a seperate plank of 150 x 25 which was run through the thicknesser till it was flat and then cut into three and edge jointed. This plank is the one that did not respond to treatment.
I spent a couple of hours on the top alone but eventually I was quite happy with the first sanding, and applied wipe on poly.
The next morning running my hand over it I could feel every dip and twirl in the grain and the poly had disappeared in several swirly grain areas.
Second time round using exactly the same tools and methods and it has stayed smooth.
I'm planning for final assembly today, I will take a few hopefully better pictures. 8-)
 
sunnybob":lz7uedgz said:
Mike, its amazing what you can without a plane or chisels :lol: :lol: :lol:
Thicknesser, table saw, mitre saw, router table, power sander, pillar drill, and some hand sanding, gets us special needs people in the makers arena,.........
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Oh I know. Although I started with a few hand tools, I was so useless with them that I ended up doing most of my woodwork with power tools for a few years. I had one plane, and could barely use it. Twenty five or thirty years ago I'd have made this piece much the way you have. So, I've laid out the path for you. You're destined to become a hand-tool woodworker, and you may as well just get used to the idea. :lol: :lol:
 
Mike, at 72, i dont think I'm likely to go to hand tools in 30 years time :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
Well, Here we are, (cue drum roll). one two drawer bedside cabinet, that isnt any where close to the quality of many other on here, but my expectations were low to start with so I'm happy for a first attempt. 8-)

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And finally, the money shot.
Both headboards and the cabinet in place, all ready for when the visitors start arriving again.

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Just waiting for the purchasing office to source a pair of handles now, apparently I dont have the necessary qualifications for handle selection. :eusa-naughty: 8-)
 
Luckily for me, you cant go over it with a tape measure and microscope :D :D :D
Ta for the compliment though. 8-)
 
Nice job; looks really good as it is without handles/pulls. I would take extreme caution over the type or size of the handles; buy just the tiniest wrong thing, or the wrong size and the whole job will look awful. Handles and pulls for me are just about THE most important part of any project. I generally tend to keep them simple and keep them small so they can be held between thumb and forefinger - Rob
 
I offered to bevel the lower drawer edges to make it easy to pull open without any handles, apparently thats no longer in fashion (no surprise there, I'm a card carrying fashion victim), so its all down to her as to handles and where they go.
But she will let me drill the holes. :lol: 8-)
 
I can advise, but if its wrong, its not my fault :eusa-naughty: :eusa-naughty: 8-)
 
My ears dont work so well any more, the tinnitus is the exact same frequency as "you did that wrong" 8-)
 
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