Making Antique Furniture Reproductions: Instructions and Measured Drawings for 40 Classic Projects (Dover Woodworking) by Franklin H. Gottshall

Author:Franklin H. Gottshall [Gottshall, Franklin H.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780486161648
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2012-12-13T05:00:00+00:00

When dust frames have been fastened to the desk, get out rails (0), (P), and (W) to make the frame that goes under the desk top and serves the purpose of fastening the table board, or desk top, to the carcass of the desk. Dress all lumber for this frame, and after making mortise-and-tenon joints, glue up the frame and flatten all glue joints by sanding them even. Then saw rails (O) to shape if this has not been done before the frame was glued together. Shape the molding around all four edges on a shaper, and then screw the frame to the top of the desk with #12, and possibly even some #14, wood screws. Just possibly the above-mentioned frame should not be fastened to the desk until the drawers have been made and fitted to the desk, so the fitting of the drawers may be that much more easily accomplished.

Brackets (J) may also be made, carved, and glued and screwed fast to the desk before making the drawers, though it might be easier to adjust their length so the ends fit against the shell on the drawer front after the drawer has been fitted to the desk than the other way around. Here you can use your own best judgment.

To make the drawers, first get out stock for the drawer fronts, as indicated in the Bill of Material. All of these are quite thick because of the blocking on the fronts.

While the blocking and carving on the drawer fronts may be done before the dovetailing, we advise doing the dovetailing first, since the fronts may then be held in the vise more easily to do the multiple dovetail joints. Doing it this way also makes damaging the carving far less likely. Layouts for the dovetailing on all of the drawers is shown in Figs. 11, 12, and 13.

Drawer backs are also dovetailed to the drawer sides, but since these are through dovetails, all of the work may be done by setups on the circular saw, the band saw, or both. Parts of the waste material of the dovetail mortises on the drawer fronts may be cut out on the mortising machine, and the remainder may easily be chiseled out. Or a dovetailing saw may be used to start the cuts on the waste side of the line on each dovetail, in the way it was done before machinery came into general use, and the rest chiseled out as we have described the process in other chapters of the book.

When dovetailing has been completed, the ends of the drawer fronts may be reduced in thickness by using a dado head and crosscut fence on the table saw. The rounding of sharp corners at the shoulders, formed by this cutting away, may then be accomplished quite easily using chisels, plane, and sandpaper. The acanthus leaf decorations on the upper drawers should be carved before the drawer is glued together. Locks and drawer pulls should also be fitted to the drawer fronts before gluing up the drawers.

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