Drawer pulls are constructed to match other furniture, or fingertip recesses can be gouged out along the insides of the inner uprights, handles or pulls thus being eliminated. The cylindrical legs are tapered to 2 in. at their bottoms with their tops cut into wide tenons, which fit through holes in cleats screwed to the upper back rails. The tenons are sawkerfed and wedged tightly in place before they are cut off flush with the upper surface of the cleats. Bachelor Chest. When space is not available for a desk or writing table, a chest of drawers with a slide that can be pulled out for writing (Figure 2.66) will obviate the necessity of clearing off the top whenever a pen is taken in hand. While this requires some space to be allocated for writing materials in one of the drawers, it reduces the height of the chest to a standard 31 in., suitable for unit assemblies. The alternate method of employing a false drawer front as a drop leaf to form a writing shelf raises the chest by the width of the drop front. The sides are glued up with dowels to form pieces 18 in. wide; the top will glue up into an i8in. piece, a in. overhang being allowed at the front. After the glue has set and the joints have been planed smooth, in. rabbets are cut У2 in. wide along the inside of the rear edges of the sides to receive the plywood back. A similar rabbet is cut in the upper inside edge of the back base piece. The front top rail dovetails into corresponding lapped sockets in the tops of the sidepieces to lock that part of the assembly together, as shown in detail A of Figure 2.66. The front base member is mitered into the lower front edges of the side pieces. The miter on the side members is stopped by a horizontal saw cut at the height of the base piece. This gives an opportunity for an accurate job of doweling. In order to lock the bottoms together at the miter, the upper one of a pair of dowels protrudes from the top of the side member, while the lower one extends from the bottom of the base member, fitting into accurately drilled holes in the opposite members of the miter joint, as pictured in B. All other front rails and all of the back rails of the frame assemblies are doweled into the sides of the chest. To facilitate final assembly the six frames are glued separately, with the center rails and guides screwed into place for the correspondingly rabbeted center drawer rails, which fasten to the bottoms of the INDOOR FURNITURE CONSTRUCTION 18' Front Elevation Side Elevatioa Fig. 2.66. Bachelor chest. rawers. The two top frames are Y\ in. deeper than the other frames, extent flush with the outer edges of the chest's sides. The bottom frame is rabbeted along its inner bottom edges to receive Иin. dust panel. Screws may be inserted into the side rails of all frames attachment to the side members of the chest; additional holes are drilled f underneath the top frame members for fastening the top of the chest in pi Holes to permit the insertion of the screwdriver must be bored at correspom Points in the sliding shelf frame, as shown in detail C.