I’m a few weeks into my first woorkworking course at Ideal Tools and thoroughly enjoing the experience. Most of my updates on this are on the wood working forum and on my Flickr account, but I thought I’d post a summary of my work here.

I started with rough lumber and dressed it to size with the jointer and thicknesser. This was good learning for me as I have read about this many many times, but haven’t done much of it myself. I ended up with four nicely square legs and the rails for the front, back and sides.

Making the draw front was interesting. The piece has a rectangular hole cut out of the front rail. I was wondering how we would do this so perfectly, but learnt I learnt the trick. I ripped the front rail into three pieces with the centre one the height of the draw front. I then cut out the draw piece and glued it all back together. The end result … it looks like I’ve cut out a perfectly rectangular slot for the draw.

Moving ahead a few steps … after putting an inside taper on the legs, finessing all the pieces, and making the mortises with the Festool Domino (I want one!), I was ready for my first dry fit. The result? Pretty impressive if I say so myself. I was very very happy to see it come together so nicely.

Still lots more to do:

• Bottom rail
• “Fans” for the side
• Bottom shelf
• Top
• Draw & draw handle
• Finishing

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