What You’ll Receive:
- Detailed cut list and plans including a PDF and a SketchUp file (Metric and Imperial).
- Hours of detailed video instruction (36 videos in total) showing every step of the build.
- All videos and plans are digital and will be available for download upon purchase.
What You’ll Learn:
- Period Furniture Design
- Material Layout
- Wood Movement Considerations
- Cabriole Leg Shaping
- Dovetailed Case Construction
- Through Dovetails
- Sliding Dovetails
- Half-blind dovetails
- ¾ Overlay Dovetailed Drawer Construction
- Patternmaking and Routing
- Curved Moldings
- Basic Carving
- Basic Spindle Turning
- Wiping Varnish Application
- Hardware installation
What You’ll Need:
Note: This is not a required list of tools. This is simply what I used during the build. Remember, there are always multiple ways to accomplish a task so if you don’t have one or more of these tools, you can very likely still make this project.
Tools
- Planer/Jointer (alternatives: purchase pre-milled lumber kits or use hand planes)
- Tablesaw
- Dado Stack
- Router
- Bandsaw
- Drill
- Lathe (for turning the pad foot and finials)
- Parting tool, skew, bowl or spindle gouge, round scraper
- Miter Saw (for cutting gooseneck miters)
- Spindle Sander
- Drum Sander (for making the bonnet veneer)
- Random Orbit Sander
- Carving Chisels (for gooseneck clean up, fan and finial carving)
- 3/20 Gouge: https://amzn.to/2uw0g2a
- 7/20 Gouge: http://amzn.to/2B0PpMS
- 16/6 V Gouge: https://amzn.to/2GjI4KD
- 25/6 Back Bent Gouge: http://amzn.to/2hLNB5T
- Hand Tools – Chisels, Medium Bench Plane, Spoke Shave, Shoulder Plane, Card Scrapers, Dovetail and flush trim Saws, Rasp, Round File
Bits
- 3/16” Round Over (Drawer beading, Transition Molding)
- Flush Trim
- Pattern
- ¾” Dovetail http://amzn.to/2tY76x4
- ¾” OD Guide Bushing
- Goosenecks
- 1/2″ Spiral Upcut http://amzn.to/2u1vleb
- 1 1/2″ Core Box http://amzn.to/1BWRx6m
- 3/4″ Core Box http://amzn.to/1CP0RbR
- 3/8″ Ovolo http://amzn.to/2phyb9R
- 3/16″ Ovolo http://amzn.to/2FFZaGz
- Collet Extension http://amzn.to/1949RxK
- Transition Molding
- ½” Classical http://amzn.to/2GBsnzG
- ¾” European Door Edge https://www.mlcswoodworking.com/shopsite_sc/store/html/smarthtml/pages/bt_bead.html?zoom_highlight=8562
Hardware
- Horton Brasses C-602L; 3” (qty 14) https://www.horton-brasses.com/C-602L-3-00.asp
- Horton Brasses C-602SE (qty 5) https://www.horton-brasses.com/C-602SE-C-602SE.asp
- Horton Brasses H-42; ¾”, with wood screw fitting (qty 2) https://www.horton-brasses.com/H-42-0-75.asp