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Drawer and Drawer Aperture Decoration
Since man first made tools, utensils and weapons from wood, he has burnt, carved and scraped decoration into it. Even in their simplest form, the rails and stiles of early joiner-made coffers usually exhibit chamfered edges (fig. 1), though more … Continue reading
Posted in Antiques, Drawers, Techniques
Tagged bookmatched, carcase, chamfered edge, cock-beading, coffer, crossbanding, crossgrain, D-moulding, decoration, double-bead moulding, dovetails, drawer construction, drawer fronts, drawer runners, drawers, featherbanding, frame-and-panel, geometrically moulded, joiner, linenfold, lipping, mouldings, quartered, sacrificial edging, side-hung drawers, veneer, walnut
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A William and Mary Simulated Tortoiseshell Chest of Drawers – Part Three
To those who commented and emailed in response to Part Two regarding the method of affixing the D-moulded dustboards within the carcase and covering the ends of the dustboards/housings, the following will hopefully go some way to making the procedure … Continue reading
A William and Mary Simulated Tortoiseshell Chest of Drawers – Part Two
I’m getting a little ahead of myself here, but due to the stormy and periodically wet weather we’ve experienced lately, I didn’t want to risk setting up outdoors to work on the chest’s carcase. In stead, I moved piles of … Continue reading
Posted in Case Furniture
Tagged D-moulding, dustboards, moulding, wedges, William and Mary
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A William and Mary Walnut Chest of Drawers – Part Five
With all the quartered walnut veneers, ash banding and walnut banding laid on the carcase ends and cleaned up, I glued the banding to the front edges of the carcase ends and tidied it up too. The top and bottom … Continue reading
Posted in Case Furniture
Tagged bun foot, carcase, D-moulding, ogee moulding, veneer, William and Mary
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