Sellers Home Dressing Table Mirror: Episode 1
Transitioning from a prototype ensures that things fit. It also assures that any mistakes in the design can be fixed before we get to the final version.
Transitioning from a prototype ensures that things fit. It also assures that any mistakes in the design can be fixed before we get to the final version.
Introducing a new piece to make is always thrilling and this pivoted mirror raises the bar for a small project to be made, completely by hand, with many woodworking skills and techniques to be learned in the making of it.
In this episode, we finesse the drawer fronts and handles, bringing shape and alignment to make sure everything is synchronized well.
Bringing the last puzzle pieces together in the final stages of anything you make is always wonderful, and in this episode, it’s the drawer fronts that crown everything.
When the drawers are dovetailed, we need drawer bottoms.
Cutting your dovetails and fitting the counterparts is probably one of the most rewarding aspects of drawer making. It’s the seemingly insignificant movements with the tools that can escape us.
In this episode of the chest of drawers, we focus on the actual drawers, which are three different heights. Paul came up with a guide that guarantees a beautiful layout.
It’s the small details that preface the final stages of assembly which ensure success during glue up, and this episode covers these essential steps.
The cross-rail dividers are dovetailed into the sides of the cabinet carcass individually to increase the intrinsic strength of the overall piece. Accuracy is essential to the cabinet and also to good joinery.
In this episode, Paul demonstrates the best way of customising the walls of the dado to match perfectly to the thicknesses of the panels being fitted to them.