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Early Access Video: Furniture Forensics with a Corner Cabinet

🕑 Added 2023-08-05 11:00:04 +0000 UTC

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Fred Gosbee

Maybe the butt joint was because that side was too shout for a rabet.

Eddie

Rex… we need to talk about the Yankee Candle situation in this video.

JKlarinet

I love corner cabinets; new ones can be occasionally found in rural Virginia, Pennsylvania, and other communities with Amish and Mennonite cabinetmakers (like Ohio and Indiana). Often in yellow pine or inexpensive hardwood.

Bill Rhodes

Wanted the drawer depth for something that length?

Joseph Vaughan

This is like watching an art historian in front of a painting, revealing details one by one, educating the eye. Marvelous. Thank you.

Richard C von Brecht

I had that thought too but then why didn’t he cut down the other side to even it up?

Mark Petersen

Come aspects of this piece, such as the drawer and the doors, suggest to me that they may have come from one or more other pieces. Many skilled rural craftsman had no problem re-using parts from other pieces. This takes nothing from the skill and artistry on display here. Adapting used components effectively is efficient and is its own type of skill.

Richard C von Brecht

What a interesing blend of pragnatism and detailing. I love how it is seemingly made from a grab bag of woods. Nothing goes to waste but somehow it is blended together for strength and beauty.

Matt Evans-Koch

Really enjoy these FF videos. Thank you Rex and thanks to your brother and his family.

David Bumpus

Really cool! On the drawer, does the bottom groove show on both sides? I'm wondering if the drawer was wider in a previous life, and that's why the back is a butt joint on one side, the side that was cut off (maybe)?

Gerald Eddy

Your FF videos make me look at old furniture pieces all the time. I love seeing the stuff that was normally hidden to see makers marks and where they did short cuts because they could! Love this stuff!

Skully Wood and Metal

My first thought was it built much earlier and then refurbished in the 1950s. Then you caught that as well.

Jeff Griest

I wonder if the half lap joint on the left side of the drawer was skipped because the scrap wood piece might have been too short.

Meryl Logue

My gosh I love these FF videos. Thank you. And what a surprise ending! My house is from 1911, and every drawer is built less than this. Nailed rabbets for front-to-sides using 6d wire nails. Same bottom but they tend to be 3 boards with a center nail on the backest one. Sides-to-back are butt, nailed through the sides with 6d wire nails. Quite crude compared to this but mostly durable. I’ve had to do some work on the most-used ones. Lovely video with lots to think about as I go through my day. Thank you!

Bill Rhodes

I think the marks on the rear of the bottom of the drawer are wear marks. If band saw marks, they should be distributed more. And I bet the butt joint was because he cut it wrong. I did that once.