Drawer frame construction is similar to chair construction. Dovetail joints (wedge-shaped openings or dovetails that hold matching pins cut in the joining piece) are used in old or expensive furniture. Butt joints (joining pieces simply butted together either face to face, edge to edge, or ...
1. The wood is solid (no veneer) and it is well made with dovetailed drawers. The drawers open and close easily. 2. There is some damage, but nothing that can’t be repaired easily. The drawer bottoms are in pretty bad shape, but that’s an easy fix. 3. I like the shape of t...
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Having taken Michael Pekovich’s Table From a Single Board workshop at the Connecticut Valley School of Woodworking, I don’t feel completely lost. There I built a similar table with the sides tenoned into mortises in the legs, tenoned bottom drawer rail, and a dovetailed top drawer rail...
Let me show you these living room tables when I first acquired them a few years ago. They are vintage and originally made by Mersman. The end tables both have a dovetail drawer, while the coffee table merely has a faux drawer. The holes on the coffee table are plugged up with wood fi...
Remove a drawer from the roll-top desk to see how it was put together. A dovetail joint resembles the triangle shape of a bird's tail and holds the boards together with cutouts in the wood that fit together snugly. Unlike the earliest dovetail joints, which were irregular because they wer...
Many of these vintage buffets have dovetailed drawers. These may look difficult to repair, but they can be easily fixed with the right knowledge. If in the worst-case scenario, the drawer cannot be repaired, the person who works with wood should easily be able to make a new drawer or at...
tell you if the piece is real wood or not. You are looking fordovetailedges where the front of the drawers meets the sides of the drawer. Depending on the age of the piece, the dovetail can be more close together or spread apart. If you see dovetail drawers, you have a real wood ...