Follow up to "can you spot the booboo"?

Re: Follow up to "can you spot the booboo"?

Mike in Mystic

>The dresser looks great - the jarrah and pine combination really goes nicely.

One critique - I would have lined up the knobs from top to bottom. It just looks a bit "off" with the larger drawer knobs being out of line with the upper drawers. Just my opinion.

Mike

Re: Follow up to "can you spot the booboo"?

GolfSteve in Calgary

>Nice job, Derek. I like the orange tone of the wood (at least in the photo) - it brings out the richness of the pine.

I actually like the placement of the knobs.

lucky 11 year old

Jack Guzman from Maine

>That's a nice dresser.---Jack

Nice work

Jim in Burlington Ontario

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Re: Pins / Tails

Tom Scott

>Big pins & little tails?

Nice work, though. It lookks great.

Tom

Re: Follow up to "can you spot the booboo"?

Rick Hoppe (Los Angeles)

>Derek, I think your dresser is beautiful! I wouldn't change a thing.

Regarding knob placement, I wonder...if one was to move the knobs on the first full width drawer toward the center by about 3/4 inch, it might make a nice transition from the knobs in the double drawers at the top, into the lower set -- Making a kind of "flowing line" as it were.

Re: Follow up to "can you spot the booboo"?

Alan Bierbaum

>Looks good and I am sure that the dovetails will hold up. Something about the knobs does not look quite right. Normally the smaller drawers would have smaller knobs; maybe this is it. An example is attached (poor photo though).

Re: Follow up to "can you spot the booboo"?

Jonathan Peck - N.Y.

>Is booboo leaning against the lamp right next to Yogi? The knobs look like they want to line up

Very nice.

victor parisian

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Re: Follow up to "can you spot the booboo"?

Wiley Horne--Glendora CA

>Derek,

I really like the warmth of this chest. It just seems perfect, with the stuffed toys. The pins have exactly the right look, too, big and bold. It has a very happy and jolly look about it.

Wiley

Re: Follow up to "can you spot the booboo"?

Derek Cohen (in Perth, Australia)

>Hi Jonathan

Your chest of drawers looks really wonderful. If I did this one again, I would use similar timber.

I had some reservations about the placement of the knobs on mine, but finally decided to go ahead when I looked at this version (below) of Kelly Mehler's (from a FWW illustration). Note that my chest is both narrower and taller (than Kelly's and, I presume, yours), and I wanted to avoid accentuating the vertical dimension. My wife likes it this way so that settled it! :)

Regards from Perth

Derek

Re: Pins / Tails *LINK*

Derek Cohen (in Perth, Australia)

>That was the point of my original post, Tom. See the link below.

Regards

Derek


Can you spot the boo boo?

Question re: "can you spot the booboo"?

Jonathan Kaplan (OR)

>First, let me say that I really like how the chest came out -- nice work!

But looking at the link, and thinking back to the old "spot the boo boo" discussion, I found myself wondering about the question re: strength again...

If I understand, the worry is that with "big pins" and "little tails" the drawer side is not well connected to the front.

But of course, the drawer side, and hence the "small tails" are long-grain, and hence very strong, no matter how small they are. The force, after all, is pulling them, and as Moses Yoder mentioned in the original BB thread, it is really hard to pull off a piece of long-grain wood!

On the other hand, if there were "small tails" these would be connected to the wood on the very front of the drawer only via face-grain, and they could be pulled off relatively easily. Of course, the fact that they are also connected via long grain on the back of the front of the drawer makes this better, but still, *that* stretch of long-grain is only connected via face grain, etc. So an argument could be made that the way Derek did it is actually stronger... (Is it easier to pull off a small 'tail' or to 'split off' a piece of face-wood..?)

Has anyone actually tested to see which way is stronger? I'm betting that in practice it doesn't make the slightest bit of difference, since either is likely much stronger than any force it is likely to experience, but now I'm curious again...

jk