What Should I Do with All These Wooden Drawers?

[erikmannie]

I spent 2 hours this morning at my Dad’s getting a second coat of stain on half the drawers, blowing the *extensive* sawdust out of his garage, & spraying varnish on most of the work.

The varnish smelled of amyl nitrate. Hopefully, I didn’t get a little high. I felt just a little stoned, which is obviously very bad. Next time, I will wear a respirator.

I’m including a picture of the tiny knobs that I am going to use. We needed to supply washers, or else the knobs would have been a little loose.

 

[erikmannie]

At this point, all I need to do is wait for the varnish to dry and install 60 knobs. The holes are already drilled!

 

[Winegrower]

Those are very cute knobs!

 

[erikmannie]

Those are very cute knobs!

Thank you. They were only 36 cents each on Amazon.

 

[erikmannie]

It is all done & in my garage!

It still has some sawdust on it from the trip to my house. This was a pretty epic father and son project.

 

[erikmannie]

The last day I went to my Dad’s to work on it, I thought I was just going to put on knobs, load it up and come home.

That was not at all the case!! It was too tight of a fit to get the drawers in there, so I had to sand down *both* sides of *every single* drawer.

After all of that sanding, the drawers still didn’t fit! I had to file the trim!

This was the case because I wanted to get my trim in there nice and straight, and hide any errors in the plywood frame. I miscalculated how much extra space I had to work with.

Here are some pictures of sanding both sides of every drawer:



Here are some pictures of filing the trim to get the drawers to fit in the chest:





Here is a picture of the casters on the bottom of the chest:

 

[erikmannie]

The deceased owner of these drawers was named Byron Wilson. He had written his name in one of the drawers. I I left his name in there & honored him by having that drawer be drawer #1.

Even though he has been dead for 30 years, he still has a website to show his craftsmanship:

Home - Byron Wilson

Byron Wilson, midcentury jewelry designer and artist. This is an informational website, which offers history and growth in the modern jewelry movement.

byron-wilson.com

His widow Ana is one of my dear UPS customers. She is the one that gave me the drawers. Her and I often talk about metalworking (she went to Art School for metalworking), & I always give a few bones to her dog Buck.

 

[erikmannie]

My tap and die collection took up 30 drawers. I may as well post a picture of each row.

This row is 4-36 thru 10-24:



This row is 10-32 thru 1/4-20:

 

[erikmannie]

Continued:

This row is 1/4-28 thru 3/8-24:



This row is 7/16-14 thru 1-2-20:

 

[erikmannie]

Continued:

This row is 1/2-24 thru 3/4-10:



The bottom row is 1”-8, NPT taps, NPT dies, metric taps, & tap drill sheets: