Chippendale five drawer chest rails and styles

The photo below show the top drawer blade and top drawer center divider being glued into the case. The top drawer center divider is blind sliding dovetailed into the top drawer blade, the notch in the top of the top drawer center divider receives the front case rail, the front case rail has two tendons […]

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Chippendale five drawer chest joinery part III

Finally we need to finish the joinery for the drawer runners and the front and rear drawer blades. The front and rear drawer blades will have three 1/4″ x 13/16″ mortises cut in them, the drawer runners will have 1/4″ x 3/4″ tendons cut on each end of the runner, only front end of the […]

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Chippendale five drawer chest joinery part II

After the case bottom. case sides and the top of case stretchers are all glued up, we can now complete the joinery necessary for the front and rear drawer blades. The front and rear drawer blades will have 5/16″ x 2″, 7 degree sliding dovetail pins cut on them, the drawer blade pins will fit […]

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