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| An overview of the steps in building a cherry dresser- Part 1 | ||
 The building process always begins with a stack of rough-sawn lumber. In this case, Cherry from a local source. | These pages are intended to show the process of building a cherry dresser from rough lumber to finished product. |  Immediately
after planing the wood I begin gluing up the top. In this case I did it
in two steps, gluing three sections first, planing each of these, and
then joining the three wide boards. |
 The inner structure of the dresser is called the webframe. I usually make this framework out of Baltic birch. |  The cherry legs and the webframe verticals. There are of course four legs, but I only see three in this picture. |
 The legs are tapered at the bottom, and in this picture have been slotted for biscuits, and the corner saw cuts will become notches for the webframe. |  The legs are slotted longitudinally to accept the panels. |  The latitudinal saw cuts are chiseled out to make slots to accept the corners of the web frame. |
 Cut to dimensions, the rails are slotted to accept the panels, the interior verticals, and are cut for biscuits to join the legs |  The exterior structural frame is assembled without glue to test the joint fits. |
 The inner structure or webframe is assembled separately. |  The exterior structure is test-assembled around the webframe. |
| Making a cherry dresser part 2 | |
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