Dresser Construction Advice

James "Cubby" Culbertson · 2007-01-28T04:25:24+00:00

Hiya,I'm about to embark on building a dresser. I'd like to emulate this one: for those that don't go to the site to see it, it's a dresser with multiple drawers and appears to have 4 square legs that run from the floor to the underside of the top. Additionally, the sides and front are set back slightly from the faces of the legs. Typical chest of drawers construction would say to build a box, attach webs on the inside for the drawers, and then put a base/feet on. What's throwing me a bit is the full length legs. I'm thinking of two methods to incorporate them. Either a) mortise into the legs for the front of the webs, build the sides as panels with rails mortised into the legs adding a spacer to the back of the sides to hold the webs or b) build as a traditional box with webs and then notch the legs to set the box into. I suspect (a) is the best choice for strength but I'm wondering if others have a better idea? I hope this makes sense....it's difficult to describe via words sometimes! Thanks for the help!Cheers,cc

Jan 28, 2007 21 Replies

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Swingman 19 years ago

FWIW, you might want to consider Weldwood plastic resin for longer than 15 minutes, although I've been using TiteBond Extend lately for those glue-ups I can get done in less, but are stretching it for II or III.

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James "Cubby" Culbertson 19 years ago

Thanks Swingman. That's exactly what I was just looking into! Cheers, cc

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