Bookcase

After the tedious finishing process on the dresser, it has been delivered and its recipients are happy.  That means the sawdust is flying again!  Work has started on the next piece for the toddler room, an interesting bookcase.  An update on that should be coming soon!

Dresser

I was asked by a friend to make a few pieces for their soon-to-be toddler room (more pieces for that room to come).  They found a design they liked online and I went off a few pictures.  It was to be painted white so I went with birch and birch ply.  After getting plywood cut to rough size, I then edged the show sides in birch, cut everything to final size and got the case glued up.

As you can possibly see, I had some bows in the plywood to deal with, a downfall of using BORG plywood.  After the glue had set and the clamps were off, I let this sit on the assembly table for a few days with lots of weight on top while I milled up other parts.  This helped the bowing a bit.

Some drawer face blanks in the clamps.

After they were all complete and the drawer boxes were glued up, I clamped the case upside down to the assembly table and used biscuits and glue to attach the top 2-inch piece of trim.  This helped with the bowing.

Then it was time to get all the drawer boxes mounted in the case.  Unfortunately this was made more tedious than it had to be thanks to some slight bowing in the vertical plywood pieces, so each drawer runner needed a bit of shimming, but eventually I got them to slide nice and smooth.

Legs cut out and attached, drawer fronts added after routing the v-groove detail.

Finally painted.  This proved to be the most challenging part of the project - getting a nice painted finish without spray equipment.