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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Perplexed" data-source="post: 3548139" data-attributes="member: 7157">Just finished this chest of drawers for my girlfriend.  The body is alder, the drawer boxes are basswood, the back and the small drawer bottoms are birch plywood, the large drawer bottom is Spanish cedar (my gf is allergic to cedar, so only the one drawer has it with her blessing), and the drawer fronts are nicely figured red oak.  My gf insisted on the appearance being plain and straightforward with no embellishments, beaded edges, beveling, etc.  I did get her to agree to some Arts & Crafts style drawer pulls, which I think give the chest more of a finished look. I used strips of HDPE as drawer runners, and I used some furniture wax to smoothen out things a bit more. I’m not a fan of drawers rattling around, so I was pretty tight with the tolerances, with the amusing result that pushing shut the big bottom drawer causes one or more of the small drawers to pop out slightly due to air pressure <img src="/images/smilies/wink.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" data-shortname=";)" />[ATTACH=full]199038[/ATTACH]</blockquote>