Woodworker's Journal 2009-33-5, страница 44

Highboy Carcass Joinery — Apron Layout Detail

Apron Pattern

Each square = 1/2"

Knee Block Location:

Knee blocks are glued to the legs, not the apron.

Carefully saw out the lower case scroll. Clean up band saw marks on the scroll with a variety of chisels, rasps and sandpaper. (Be sure to drill the mortises for the turned drops before you glue this scroll in place.)

cutting of quite a bit of complicated joinery, so please take some time lo study the Drawings before cutting your stock. The rail beneath the top drawer of this section, for example, is double-tenoned on each end. It is cut on its back edge with mortises for two drawer runners and one

kicker strip. Plus, its front edge is cut to receive the dovetail at the top of the stiles on either side of the center drawer. And the top rail has a fat dovetail cut on either end which is fit into a dovetail socket chopped into the end grain at the top of each of the two front posts. It's complicated, but if you study the Drawings, the parts will begin to make sense.

The lower unit should be assembled in three stages. First, glue up

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in homes with forced air heat, none — so far — have developed cracked side or back panels, something quite common in period originals.

The front of the base unit is composed of only five parts, in addition to the legs, but the fabrication of these five parts involves the