The shelf is made up like a drawing board, with cleats doweled or mort [38 . Lumber List Thickness, Width, Length, Pieces in inches in inches in inches Description 23 Ya дУ46яЛе 34 Top (1834 in. wide) 23 96 3034 Sides (18 in. wide) i зУ 34 Base, front i зУ 322 Base, back i 54 27 ЗЗ2 Back (plywood) i 2 ЗЗ2 Front rail (dovetailed) 4 2 тзУа Side rails (top frames) ii 2 зУ Front and back rails 4 2 13 Center rails 8 2 13 Side rails 2 8 302 Shelf (17 in. wide) 2 i iiYa Cleats, shelf edges i Ул 12 32У2 Shelf front 4 И 34 17 Drawer guides 4 Ya 134 17 Drawer slides i Ya 42 32 Drawer front (top) i Ya 6 322 Drawer front (2nd) 2 Ya 1у 322 Drawer fronts 2 Y зУа 17 Drawer sides (top) 2 1 у 2 ъУа 172 Drawer sides (2nd) 4 Y ьу 17 Drawer sides i Y зУ 32 Drawer back (top) i Y ьУ 32 Drawer back (2nd) 2 X ьу2 32 Drawer backs 4 Ya i7 32 Drawer bottoms (plywood) i Ya 17 32 Dust shelf (plywood) and tenoned along the edges to prevent warping. The shelf front edging strip 1У2 in. wide, can be doweled into its position, and has a mitered or splined mitered corners. All frames are fastened to one side of the chest before the other side is assembled. After the screws have been driven home, the plywood back panel is fitted into its rabbeted grooves. If it has been cut squarely it will automatically square up the entire assembly. It is not only screwed into its rabbets, but across the rear edges of each frame, for added strength. The top of the chest can now be screwed into place by inserting the screwdriver through the holes in the shelf frame. The latter should be fitted in place with a INDOOR FURNITURE CONSTRUCTION Vie or in. clearance to provide easy movement for the shelf. The i clearance should be provided between the top and bottom edges of the dr fronts. The dimensions given in the lumber list do not provide for this. A s projecting dowel is inserted on the underside of the rear of the shelf to pre its being pulled out too far. Dovetailed drawers are the best construction; however, the measurerr listed were predicated on the strong but simpler drawer joint for the front con illustrated in detail D, with a dado and rabbet joint at the rear corners, plywood bottom is dadoed in place before the drawer frame is assembled. A center drawer slide to straddle the center guides in the frames consist a dado in. wide, routed in. deep in a in. X 1 in. piece of stock, w is bradded to the bottoms of each drawer. The dust panel can now be attached in its rabbets to complete the assem If desired, additional strength can be afforded the bottom corners by ad< corner blocks or cleats, after the dust panel has been installed. Vanity Chest. A comparable piece of furniture for the female sex mighi called a "spinster chest." With the sliding shelf entirely eliminated, a dra Fig. 2.67. Vanity chest. 14° . 54 in. deep results, with a 6in. front overlapping its drawer rail at the front. This drawer is compartmented by dadoing in two 17in.