Desk top / organizer / thing complete

[X_Digger]

Last edited Sat Oct 26, 2013, 02:21 PM - Edit history (3)

I started a thread a while back discussing the plans for a bunch of mailbox doors that my wife and I came across. Well, my piggy-bank idea got set aside for now.

Instead, my wife asked me to come up with a top for a sewing machine base that incorporated one or more of them, with some drawers, and a shelf.

Here's what I came up with-



Once I got final approval, I blew up the diagram and color coded it..



Then I got a bunch of wood and cut it up..



And I added all the joinery (nothing fancy, half-laps mostly.)



I worked from the inside out..



Back, sides, and dividers..



Then the top shelf..



And the bottom frame (I built it square, then cut it in three pieces, swapped the ends, and glued it back together)..





Put the drawers together..



And that's where I am now.

I've got some antique brass label holder / drawer pulls on order, and my wife should start painting it in the next couple of days. I'll rout a nice edge on the table top and mount the organizer.

I over-built it, I'm sure, but I never know what my wife might put on it.

eta:



Added the table top.

eta2: All done!