Chest-on-Frame Dresser

This is a Queen Anne-style piece of furniture.

The wood is cherry. This piece was stained, then finished with several coats of wipe-on oil/poly mix. Ordinarily I prefer not to stain cherry, since an oil finish alone is beautiful. However, there were some variations in the cherry boards, so a stain pulled it all together into one uniform colour.



The legs are the most complex part of the project. They are rough-cut on the bandsaw. The feet are then turned on a lathe. Mortises are cut to take tenons from the rails (or aprons as some call them). The final shaping of the legs is done by hand, using a combination of rasps, chisels, saws and sandpaper.

The base, during construction. It may look fragile, but built properly, it's very strong.