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<\/a>Maple kitchen work table<\/p><\/div>\n
Making the drawers for this was only the second time I’d tried cutting dovetails and they actually came out pretty well. \u00a0My first dovetails are on the drawer for my workbench and they are spectacularly poor – very sloppy, poorly layed out and with lots of gaps – but I’m still using the workbench 34 years later and the drawer is holding up just fine.<\/p>\n
<\/a>My first well executed dovetailed drawers<\/p><\/div>\n
When I finished this table I gave it to Elizabeth who was thrilled with it. \u00a0In the spring of 1982 I moved to Putney, Vermont, set up a shop in my parents’ basement and started Richard Bissell Fine Woodworking. \u00a0 \u00a0I’d build perhaps 3 pieces of furniture by then so I pretty much had the whole furniture making thing figured out. \u00a0I had, after all, read all 4 of James Krenov’s books<\/a>. Elizabeth kept the work table with her in Burlington until she moved down to Putney a year (or two?) later. \u00a0At that point we didn’t have room for it so we put it into a storage space in Brattleboro, VT with some other things. \u00a0A couple of years later when we finally had room for it we went to get it and found that it had been stolen! We like to think it’s still somewhere in the local area and some day we’ll stumble on it. \u00a0It sure would be nice to have it back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This maple\u00a0kitchen work table was the first real piece of furniture I made. \u00a0During the winter of 1981-82 I was living with my girlfriend Elizabeth (scandalous, I know, but she’s now my wife) in a small apartment in Georgia, Vermont. … Continue reading