The next big project was to make a matching set of bedside drawers, with a little ledge to keep your phone on at night.
One large consignment of construction pine later, and I set to work rough cutting all the pieces I would need. Everything apart from the drawer bottoms was made out of the same half-inch stock. The carcase side panels were laminated from the same stock also.
The carcase uses horizontal rectangular frames recessed into grooves, which then act as the drawer runners.
The L-shaped design presented a slight challenge. The recessed side panel uses a sliding dovetail to secure it to the base, so getting that to fit tightly and accurately took a little time. Very happy with the result, though.
The base of the carcase is dovetailed on for strength side-to-side, then hidden from view forever by the skirt which is also dovetailed on (half blind mitred dovetails!), but this time front-to-back. The top of the carcase also has a big couple of dovetails to keep it from splaying out there also. Super strong!
The drawers fronts all have half blind dovetails, partly because they look lovely and partly because I felt like I needed the practice. The drawer backs are held together by wedged through-tenons. The drawer bottoms are ΒΌ” hardwood ply, so still nice to look at and nice and flat without any real effort on my part.
The skirts and carcase tops have a stepped bead, which was surprisingly easy and satisfying to make.
Stained with Mann’s Antique Pine water-based woodstain, and finished with Osmo Top Oil.
(Many thanks to Lovely Wife for catching me before I made two identical units, rather than mirrored ones.)
![Routing out the housing dados for the horizontal drawer rail frames](https://wood-crafted.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_20210127_213155_329-1024x1024.jpg)
![A satisfying dovetail fit on the carcase](https://wood-crafted.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_20210123_191728_419-1024x1024.jpg)
![More dovetails on the carcase](https://wood-crafted.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_20210129_231442_952-1024x1024.jpg)
![More half blind dovetails on the carcase](https://wood-crafted.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_20210203_143030_933-1024x576.jpg)
![Dry assembly of the carcase](https://wood-crafted.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/PXL_20210206_105852066-scaled.jpg)
![Beautiful dovetails that will never be seen again](https://wood-crafted.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_20210206_111125_805-1024x1024.jpg)
![Sliding dovetails for the recessed vertical panel](https://wood-crafted.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_20210206_133656_436-1024x1024.jpg)
![Sliding dovetails for the recessed vertical panel](https://wood-crafted.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_20210206_133815_898-1024x1024.jpg)
![Shaping the stepped bead for the skirts](https://wood-crafted.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_20210206_182948_106-1024x1024.jpg)
![Shaping the stepped bead for the skirts](https://wood-crafted.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_20210206_182948_255-1024x1024.jpg)
![Getting ready for glue-up of the carcase](https://wood-crafted.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_20210219_110424_261-1024x1024.jpg)
![First stage of the glue-up](https://wood-crafted.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_20210219_110424_263-1024x1024.jpg)
![Fitting the half blind mitred dovetailed skirts](https://wood-crafted.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_20210223_181928_345-1024x1024.jpg)
![Carcase all done](https://wood-crafted.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_20210318_145418_988-819x1024.jpg)
![Drawer detail](https://wood-crafted.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_20210412_153350_291-1024x1024.jpg)
![Fitting the drawers](https://wood-crafted.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_20210412_153350_193-1024x1024.jpg)
![All the drawers fitted with pulls](https://wood-crafted.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_20210613_214809_727-819x1024.jpg)
![Finished set of drawers](https://wood-crafted.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_20210629_141254_861-1024x1024.jpg)
![Finished set of drawers with drawers open](https://wood-crafted.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_20210629_141255_225-1024x1024.jpg)
![Finished set of drawers with drawers open](https://wood-crafted.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_20210629_141255_286-1024x1024.jpg)
![Open drawer detail](https://wood-crafted.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_20210629_141255_324-1024x1024.jpg)
![Matching mirrored set of drawers](https://wood-crafted.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_20210723_202710_833-1024x1024.jpg)
![Finished set of drawers with drawers open](https://wood-crafted.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_20210723_202711_075-1024x1024.jpg)