Applied moldings

It's easy to over-complicate things

a start, anyway…

This dressing box project keeps getting put off for more pressing matters - mostly processing the new oak log I have into parts for joinery and chairmaking. Yesterday and today I took some time to work on it a bit, the beginning of the applied decoration - in this case moldings applied to the three drawer fronts. Even though I’ve never made one of these boxes before, by this point, it should be clear sailing - I’ve done lots of this applied decoration. Key phrase there is “should be...” I keep in mind something my mother used to say: “A man riding by on a white horse would never notice…” I don’t know where she came by that one, nor did I ever question it. We lived in the suburbs, no horses of any color ever rode by…

The small scale of this object presents some challenges, mostly due to the thin stock - there’s less forgiveness than in “normal” joined work with its bulky proportions. But the reason I’m making this version of the dressing box is so I can make another one right after it. This is the training-wheels version.

The top two drawers have a rectangular frame around their outer edges. The middle of the drawer has a maple plaque inside this frame, centered on the drawer front. Around it is another mitered frame - but now the thick edge of the molding is against the maple plaque - 

the moldings face each other