Finally got around to building more drawers – two sets of four for the master bath.  These are made of maple veneered plywood sides, Baltic birch plywood bottoms, and cedar edging.  The cedar is oiled and the sides of the drawers have 3 coats of satin polyurethane.  The faces of the drawers will be cedar, and will be inset.  As a consequence of having inset drawers, the slides need to be exactly level and the faces of the drawers need to be exactly flush.  This involved a bit of fiddling.  The slides are full extension and soft-closing.  I hope to start building the faces in the next few days – cedar veneer plywood with cedar edging.

Also started on the weekend to build a dozen drawers for the kitchen.  In the foreground are the cherry hardwood pieces that will be used for the edging; behind them are the sides and bottoms for 3 drawers; on the left is a drawer with the edging being glued on; behind it are drawers with edging ready for scraping, sanding and finishing; and on the right are 4 drawers ready for edging.  Its a lot of fun building these, and I am getting better (more accurate and faster) at it, but it takes a bit of time and I need to keep the shop warm for the glue to cure correctly.

Am also trying to get better organized. I built this box last week to store saw-related stuff so it is out of the way but easily accessible.  There is room for two cross-cut sleds, a jointer guide, two miter fences, a tall fence, a taper jig, two wrenches and saw blades.

We had some more snow the past few days – it looks beautiful, but ca suffit.