Kyserike Kraftsman

The assembeld carcase

I finished assembling the carcase today.

I used a biscuit jointer to create the joints between the drawer bottoms and the sides and back panel. The walnut banding on the sides and the back panel was also joined with biscuits.

To assemble the sides, back, and drawer dividers I used [...]

I’ve been too busy trying to get this done in time for Mom’s birthday so I haven’t had a chance to do many updates to the web page. Things are progressing, but we are about to enter crunch time.

Most of the walnut has been cut to size and I’ve assembled and routered the [...]

I officially started building the actual chest today. I’ve got about one month to complete it.

Drawer Dividers

This weekend I worked on creating the drawer dividers. There are eight dividers in the chest made of 1/2″ plywood with edge banding for the front edge. The plan called for a 3/4″ edging, but [...]

The Prototype

This week was spent building the prototype out of MDF. This chest will make a nice addition to the workshop.

I still have to complete the door fronts for the drawers. The plan calls for just gluing and nailing the drawer fronts to the drawers, but I’d like to find a [...]

Rough Cut Black Walnut

Before I could use the walnut, I needed to pick out what I was going to be using for the project and plane that down to 3/4 and 2/4 thickness. I don’t own a thickness planer, but a friend at work (Carl) offered to help me out. I spent [...]