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Showcase your skills with this traditionally styled tall dresser.

If you have woodworking tools and a talent to build, there is a certain time each year that you are called upon to use both. Suddenly, Aunt Susan needs a cookbook holder or Grandma needs new picture frames as the holidays come into sight on the calendar. As a result, the plans you made to build your significant other that special gift get put on hold.

So this year I decided to get an early start and build this traditional-style dresser for my wife.

Joinery in the Sides

The case begins with the dovetails that connect the sides to the bottom. These dovetails will be hidden by moulding when the proj ect is complete, so have some fun here. You could cut these joints by hand.

Lay out the pins in the sides and the matching tails in the bottom. This arrangement will prevent the case from ever loosening up across

by Glen D. Huey

Glen builds customfurniture, is a contributing editor to Popular Woodworking, the author of several books on period furniture and the host of three DVDs.

For more information on his work, visit woodworkersedge.com.

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