Lingerie Chest- Viewer Project of the Week

November 8, 2007 | Filed Under Blog, Project of the Week 

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This week’s project comes from Rob in New Concord, OH. His story is a perfect example of why we should always keep our eyes and ears open for those lucky bargains. It’s also a good reminder to make sure your family knows you are always on the look out for cheap wood and good bargains on tools. I’ll let Rob tell the story.

My dad called me one day and told me that his friend had a death in the family, an old time woodworker. The family was auctioning off all his tools. I was told that he had 2000+ board feet of walnut and that I could get some cheap since my dad’s friend knew that I like woodworking also. So I said “Sure, I’d be more than happy to buy some”. I could not make it to the auction but I told my dad to get me 100 bf of the walnut. About 2 weeks later he shows up with a bunch of wood in his truck. I’m looking, I’m looking… It is all rough cut lumber but it isn’t walnut…. So I got a little sander out and I’m trying to figure out what it is. Turns out it was about 150 board feet of mostly cherry, some curly cherry, some walnut, and some mahogany.

Well my plan was to build a walnut table but I had to scrap that Idea cause I didn’t have enough. So I decided to build my wife this Cherry lingerie chest instead. It was my first solid wood project taken down from rough lumber. The drawers I made out of oak with hand cut dovetails, the bottoms I made out of 1/4″ cedar from home depot labeled closet liner, and the dividers are made from soft maple. The frame around the jewelry chest was made from what I believe is mahogany. The finish is a Minwax wipe-on poly. I also purchased roller bearing underneath drawer slides for the drawers. Overall I was very happy with it though and it makes me feel good that the old timer’s wood was not wasted. Oh yeah, my wife was happy too.

Well Rob. Great job my man! There is nothing like taking an old pile of boards and creating something beautiful. Its even more meaningful when you know the wood belonged to someone who carried the torch before you. And what a wood score! As Tampa Tom would say, “YOU SUCK”. By they way, that’s a funny way of saying, Nice Score!

Comments

12 Responses to “Lingerie Chest- Viewer Project of the Week”

  1. Brad Nailor on November 8th, 2007 1:22 pm

    Beautiful piece, nice job!

  2. Denny on November 8th, 2007 1:59 pm

    Excellent work! Did you design it yourself?

  3. Mattias in Durham, NC on November 8th, 2007 6:15 pm

    Wow, nicely done!

    Ah… gnnnnnh! Ok, I’m back. Just recovered from a gif animation induced seizure. (joke)

  4. Tampa Tom on November 8th, 2007 6:15 pm

    Yeah, I’d definitely have to call you out and give you a hearty YOU SUCK!

    Nice looking wood!

  5. Al Navas on November 9th, 2007 5:34 am

    Beautiful! Perfect use of the wood. Great execution, too! Thanks for sharing.

    —— Al

  6. Rob on November 9th, 2007 6:24 am

    Hi Everyone, Thanks for the nice compliments. I did design it myself using the google sketchup program to make sure it looked okay and then I just winged it. I will gladly accept the elite title of “YOU SUCK”. I have found many good bargains which is why I became a woodworker in the first place… I’m too cheap to buy nice furniture. Thanks again.

  7. Claude Stewart on November 9th, 2007 7:59 am

    Wow! What a great find. It looks to me though that you should have bought all his wood. I would like to have a few more details on it in case I want to attempt some thing similar. It looks great. And oh by the way YOU SUCK! Claude Stewart

  8. Tim on November 9th, 2007 11:17 am

    Greetings from Coshocton. Looks very nice.

  9. Claude Stewart on November 9th, 2007 1:02 pm

    Rob There is no need to buy furniture when you can do stuff like that. Claude

  10. Tim aka Mopardude on November 9th, 2007 1:45 pm

    Looks good Rob! Are some of those fronts a little crooked or is just a bad pic? :)

  11. Rob on November 12th, 2007 6:27 am

    Hello Claude,

    The construction wasn’t too difficult. I first built the two side pieces by datoing the side panels into the legs. Then I connected the side panels with the drawer dividers and some dowels and glue. After the drawers were built and installed I started working on the jewlery box. For the jewlery box I put the bottom in first and then made the dividers to fit. You can get more pictures if you go to my flikr page. If you have any questions just let me know. I’m sure you could do it though.
    Hey Tim… I needed to tweek the adjustment screws on the bearing drawers slides. easy fix :-)

  12. Tim aka Mopardude on November 13th, 2007 4:35 pm

    Ok Cool! I wasn’t trying to dog you or anything. I work in a cabinet shop so those kind of things jump out at me. It pained me to see such a beautiful cabinet with the drawers a little askew.

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