Before marking and cutting the through dovetails I prepped the inside surfaces of my drawer fronts, sides and backs. I then marked and numbered them clearly and laid out all the marking and cutting tools needed for the job.
Due to the layout of the tails and the fine gap between them, it was necessary to shape a chisel on the grinder, so as to pare between them.
After cutting the tails and shoulders with a dovetail saw, I drilled clearance holes to help with removing the waste.
I ran a groove in the fronts and sides of the drawers for the bottoms to be fitted later.
After a little clean up, all the dovetails are complete and laid out ready for gluing up.
Due to the unique design of the door handles, it was necessary to make two pairs of brass pivot hinges for the centre doors as they could not be bought of the shelf at the Ironmongers.
I worked out the pivot points and clearances needed by drawing the hinges in CAD before starting to make them.
I cut the hinges from 4mm brass sheet stock and 5mm brass bar.
I then drilled out the hinges for the 5mm pivot points.
After putting the parts together I rough shaped them on the disc sander.
Final fine shaping on the diamond pad.
I then drilled out the screw holes and countersunk them.
The completed pivot hinges ready for fitting.
I removed most of the waste material with a router on the double jig seen here in the background.
I then placed on another jig for the next process.
Shaping the sideboard door handles with purpose made scrapers cut from high carbon steel.
Inspecting a door handle down it's length.
One of the handles with dominos inserted.
Handles glued on the door panels, about to be trimmed.
The hand cut veneers that were put aside a few months ago have been thicknessed to 2.8mm and cut into strips which will be used to make up the veneered door panels.
Each strip was then jointed by hand on a shooting board.
Then cut at 52 degrees and laid out, numbered, and glued together in pairs. Then the pairs were glued together.
After the quarter panels were jointed, then glued to each other to make up a panel face.
Laid out for selection and about to be vacuum bagged.
After a lot of scraping and sanding the finished door panels are ready for their handles.
The sideboard top jointed up, which will be left settle for a week before being sized, then the curved chamfers put on the front and sides.
The back having been made up and fitted.
Side with the legs on and the through wedged mortise and tenons. The bottom leg tenons still need flushing off here.
To keep the sideboard legs stable I decided to make them with a birch ply core and solid walnut mitred corners.
Gluing up the core then 2 sides, then core and two sets of sides, took time and all the small clamps in the workshop.
Here you can see all the blocks that aided the glue up. They were attached with glue and paper joint to allow easy removal afterwards.
Cutting out the mortises. You can just see the birch ply core.
