I followed your link. Complimented his work. :blush:

Cool. It's good stuff. My parents have bought furniture from him for almost 30 years.

How about an update, HM? :worried:

It took a while for my dad to finish planing the sides down. I'll post an update soon.

I know.... good help is soooo hard to get. :lol:

C'mon HM, tell your Dad to get off his butt and entertain us. :lol:

It's not his fault this time. I've got a bunch of pictures I've been too lazy to write up. Soon...

Okay, I finally got on my butt and put up the new pictures.

Here are the sides, after my dad finished tapering them. The outside (tapered) faces are facing in.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/happymonkey/89011296/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/33/89011296_240653b636.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="Tapered Sides" /></a>

The feet were cut with the router against an arch pattern, and the detail was done with a drill and some hand tools.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/happymonkey/89011672/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/39/89011672_34c76b4c6c.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Foot Detail" /></a>

The dwawers will rest and slide on pine frames, faced with cherry. These were put together rough, and then cut to matching size using the router trolley.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/happymonkey/89012226/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/32/89012226_aab37e7666.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Edging the Drawer Frames" /></a>

And here they are:

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The frames and the top will be held in mortises in the sides. We cut these with the router trolley again (boy did that turn out to be useful).

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/happymonkey/89013054/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/34/89013054_c0ddd7705b.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Drawer Frame Slots" /></a>

And here they are, cut.

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OK, now I'm pretty much up to date.

Yeah, it's tough to beat a milling machine. :D
Thanks, man. Sorry about nagging.

Tell the truth. Your dad is really Norm Abrams, right?

No problem on the nagging... who know when I would have gotten to it otherwise?

We don't have nearly the number of power tools that Norm's got! We just got something that moves a router in a straight line!

The drawer frames are glued in place, and held with band clamps.

http://static.flickr.com/35/92431176_0507545e65.jpg

There will be two drawers on the top level. The mortise will hold the divider.

http://static.flickr.com/29/92431745_03dad25ed5.jpg

Uh........ wouldn't that be drawer guide or drawer support, frames? :eyebrow:

Yeah. They are the drawer supports.

The top has to have mortised ends, to fit in the groove in the sides. We cut the mortises first.

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The top has to extend past the front of the groove, so the mortise has to end before the front of the board.

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We used the tablesaw to cut down the router groove, and tested it in the assembled frame. It was a bit tight, so we shaved it down a bit with an edging plane and a chisel.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/happymonkey/95983932/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/32/95983932_0c2bff3611.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Fine Tuning the Fit" /></a>

We fixed up the mortise with a small saw cut and a chisel.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/happymonkey/95984839/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/27/95984839_0c26240dc7.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="Trimming the Ends" /></a>

Sliding the top into the frame.

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And here it is with the top on.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/happymonkey/95987017/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/34/95987017_1044c1dbc0.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="So Far So Good" /></a>